Derrick Henry Lehmer
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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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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. His 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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