# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-montgomery
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:28.308Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-montgomery"
name: "Peter Montgomery"
slug: "peter-montgomery"
description: "Peter Lawrence Montgomery was an American mathematician who worked at the System Development Corporation and Microsoft Research. He is best known for his contributions to computational number theory and mathematical aspects of cryptography, including the Montgomery multiplication method for arithmetic in finite fields, the use of Montgomery curves in applications of elliptic curves to integer factorization and other problems, and the Montgomery ladder, which is used to protect against side-channel attacks in elliptic curve cryptography."
tagline: "American mathematician (1947–2020)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-09-25"
deathDate: "2020-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Peter Montgomery (mathématicien)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump