Derrick Norman Lehmer (27 July 1867 – 8 September 1938) was an American mathematician and number theorist .
5-762: Lehmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Derrick Norman Lehmer (1867–1938), number theorist who produced tables of prime factors and mechanical devices like Lehmer sieves Derrick Henry Lehmer (1905–1991), number theorist known for Lucas–Lehmer test , son of D. N. Lehmer and husband of Emma Lehmer Emma Lehmer (1906–2007), Russian mathematician, known for her work on reciprocity laws, wife of D. H. Lehmer Kat Lehmer , American film director, writer, actor and artist See also [ edit ] Derrick Lehmer (disambiguation) Lehmer–Schur algorithm , in mathematics, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer code Lehmer's conjecture (also known as:
10-531: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Derrick Norman Lehmer He was educated at the University of Nebraska , obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1893 and a master's in 1896. Lehmer was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1900 for a thesis, Asymptotic Evaluation of Certain Totient-Sums, under the supervision of E. H. Moore . He was appointed instructor in mathematics at
15-691: The University of California, Berkeley , in 1900 and married Clara Eunice Mitchell on 12 July 1900 in Decatur, Illinois . He was promoted to professor at Berkeley in 1918 and continued to teach there until retiring in 1937. In 1903, he presented a factorization of Jevons's number (8,616,460,799) at the San Francisco Section of the American Mathematical Society on December 19, 1903. He published tables of prime numbers and prime factorizations , reaching 10,017,000 by 1909. He developed
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25-860: The Lehmer's Mahler measure problem ), a problem in number theory, after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer five , named after Dick Lehmer Lehmer's GCD algorithm , named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, a rather fast GCD algorithm Lehmer matrix , in mathematics, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer mean , named after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer number , in mathematics Lehmer's polynomial , named after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lucas–Lehmer primality test , in mathematics, after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer random number generator , named after D. H. Lehmer Lehmer sieve Lucas–Lehmer test Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test , in mathematics See also [ edit ] Lemer (disambiguation) Lemmer (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
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