Donald Dines Wall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDonald Dines Wall
American mathematician
Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1921
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 28-Nov-2000
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Donald Dines Wall
- Donald Dines Wall (August 13, 1921 – November 28, 2000) was a mathematician working primarily on number theory.
- He obtained his Ph.D.
- on normal numbers from University of California, Berkeley in 1949, where his adviser was Derrick Henry Lehmer.
- His better known papers include the first modern analysis of Fibonacci sequence modulo a positive integer. Drawing on Wall's work, Zhi-Hong Sun and his twin brother Zhi-Wei Sun proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall–Sun–Sun primes that guided the search for counterexamples to Fermat's last theorem.
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