Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer (February 23, 1905 – May 22, 1991), almost always cited as D.H. Lehmer, was an American mathematician significant to the development...
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inversion table. The Lehmer code is named in reference to D. H. Lehmer, but the code had been known since 1888 at least. The Lehmer code makes use of the...
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Riemann hypothesis (redirect from Lehmer's phenomenon)
(2001) [1994], "Zeta-function", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press Lehmer, D. H. (1956), "Extended computation of the Riemann zeta-function", Mathematika...
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particular φ(n) divides n − 1. D. H. Lehmer conjectured in 1932 that there are no composite numbers with this property. Lehmer showed that if any composite...
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intervals has been identified with the hyperbolic numbers by M. Warmus and D. H. Lehmer through the identification z = 1 2 ( x + y ) + 1 2 ( x − y ) j , {\displaystyle...
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n, not depending on special form or properties. It was described by D. H. Lehmer and R. E. Powers in 1931, and developed as a computer algorithm by Michael...
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after Derrick Henry Lehmer Lehmer random number generator, named after D. H. Lehmer Lehmer sieve Lucas–Lehmer test Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test, in mathematics...
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The Lehmer random number generator (named after D. H. Lehmer), sometimes also referred to as the Park–Miller random number generator (after Stephen K. Park...
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amount of time. The term "backtrack" was coined by American mathematician D. H. Lehmer in the 1950s. The pioneer string-processing language SNOBOL (1962) may...
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(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951): pp. 36–38. Lehmer, Derrick H. (1951). "Mathematical methods in large-scale computing units". Proceedings...
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Euler's totient function (section Lehmer's conjecture)
computed without factoring n. If p is prime, then φ(p) = p − 1. In 1932 D. H. Lehmer asked if there are any composite numbers n such that φ(n) divides n −...
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the words "let X1,...,Xn be independent random variables...". Yet as D. H. Lehmer stated in 1951: "A random sequence is a vague notion... in which each...
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), under the direction of D. H. Lehmer, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. R. M. Robinson...
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sequence corresponds to any non-negative number N was first observed by D. H. Lehmer. Indeed, a greedy algorithm finds the k-combination corresponding to...
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The deceased honorary fellows include H. S. M. Coxeter, Paul Erdős, Haim Hanani, Bernhard Neumann, D. H. Lehmer, Leonard Carlitz, Robert Frucht, E. M...
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Swinnerton-Dyer 1973 Due to Kolberg 1962 Due to Ashworth 1968 Due to Lahivi Due to D. H. Lehmer Due to Ramanujan 1916 Due to Wilton 1930 Due to J.-P. Serre 1968, Section...
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by D. H. Lehmer and J. M. H. Olmstead. In his 1933 paper, Lehmer proved the theorem for the cosine by proving a more general result. Namely, Lehmer showed...
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Aliquot sequence (redirect from Lehmer five)
number. The first five candidate numbers are often called the Lehmer five (named after D.H. Lehmer): 276, 552, 564, 660, and 966. However, 276 may reach a high...
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In mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer test (LLT) is a primality test for Mersenne numbers. The test was originally developed by Édouard Lucas in 1878 and subsequently...
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future husband Derrick H. Lehmer. Upon her graduation summa cum laude with a B.A. in Mathematics (1928), Emma married the younger Lehmer. They moved to Brown...
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Lehmer sieves are mechanical devices that implement sieves in number theory. Lehmer sieves are named for Derrick Norman Lehmer and his son Derrick Henry...
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astronomer Huai-Dong Cao (born 1959), Chinese-born American mathematician D. H. Lehmer (1905–1991) mathematician, significant to the development of computational...
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Internet Archive. D. H. Lehmer (1976). "Strong Carmichael numbers". J. Austral. Math. Soc. 21 (4): 508–510. doi:10.1017/s1446788700019364. Lehmer proved that...
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called "approximate numbers", the second of which forms a real algebra. D. H. Lehmer reviewed the article in Mathematical Reviews and observed that this second...
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Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Vol. 15 (1916), p. xxii (with D. H. Lehmer) 'On Factoring Large Numbers', Bulletin of the American Mathematical...
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Lehmer's conjecture, also known as the Lehmer's Mahler measure problem, is a problem in number theory raised by Derrick Henry Lehmer. The conjecture asserts...
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a Lehmer pair is a pair of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that are unusually close to each other. They are named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, who...
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Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. (category Articles with hCards)
Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory. with John Brillhart, D. H. Lehmer, John L. Selfridge, Bryant Tuckerman: Factorization of bn ± 1, b = 2...
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John Selfridge (category Articles with hCards)
"Fermat factoring status". Retrieved 11 April 2017. John Brillhart; D. H. Lehmer; J. L. Selfridge (April 1975). "New Primality Criteria and Factorizations...
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factoring and computational devices, such as the Lehmer sieve, built with his son Derrick Henry Lehmer. Lehmer, D. N. (1918). "Arithmetical theory of certain...
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