Derrick Lehmer

Name: Derrick Henry (Dick) Lehmer

Born: February 23, 1905, in Berkeley, California USA

Death: May 22, 1991 (Age: 86)

Computer-related contributions

• American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s.
• Devised the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes.

Mathematical objects named after Derrick Lehmer

• Lehmer's polynomial
• Lehmer matrix
• Lehmer sieve
• Lehmer-Schur algorithm
• Lehmer's GCD algorithm
• Lehmer code
• Lehmer's conjecture
• Lehmer number
• Lucas-Lehmer test
• Lehmer random number generator
• Lehmer mean