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Derrick Henry Lehmer

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Gender Male
Death33 years ago
Date of birth February 23,1905
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born Berkeley
California
United States
Date of died May 22,1991
DiedBerkeley
California
United States
Spouse Emma Lehmer
Parents Derrick Norman Lehmer
BooksGuide to tables in the theory of numbers
Selected Papers of D. H. Lehmer
Selected Papers of D.H. Lehmer
Education Brown University
The University of Chicago
University of California, Berkeley
Doctor studentTom Apostol
John Brillhart
Ronald Graham
Harold Stark
Peter J. Weinberger
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Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer, almost always cited as D.H. Lehmer, was an American mathematician significant to the development of computational number theory. Lehmer refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes.

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