Derrick Henry Lehmer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Derrick Henry Lehmer

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1905

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Date of Death: 22-May-1991

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Derrick Henry Lehmer

  • Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer (February 23, 1905 – May 22, 1991) 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 him 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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