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Derrick Henry Lehmer
Mathematician, Academic
1905 – 1991
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Who was Derrick Henry Lehmer?
Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1905
Berkeley - Also known as
- D. H. Lehmer
- Derrick H. Lehmer
- Parents
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- PhD, Brown University
Mathematics
( - 1930) - University of Chicago
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lehigh University
- Lived in
- California
(1946 - 1991/05/22)
- California
- Died
- May 22, 1991
Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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