Lehmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Derrick Norman Lehmer (1867–1938), number theorist who produced tables of prime factors and mechanical devices like
Lehmer sieve
Lehmer sieves are mechanical devices that implement sieve theory, sieves in number theory. Lehmer sieves are named for Derrick Norman Lehmer and his son Derrick Henry Lehmer. The father was a professor of mathematics at the University of California ...
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Derrick Henry Lehmer
Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer (February 23, 1905 – May 22, 1991), 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 ...
(1905–1991), number theorist known for
Lucas–Lehmer test, son of D. N. Lehmer and husband of Emma Lehmer
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Emma Lehmer
Emma Markovna Lehmer (''née'' Trotskaia) (November 6, 1906 – May 7, 2007) was an American mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather ...
(1906–2007), Russian mathematician, known for her work on reciprocity laws, wife of D. H. Lehmer
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Kat Lehmer, American film director, writer, actor and artist
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Derrick Lehmer (disambiguation)
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Lehmer–Schur algorithm
In mathematics, the Lehmer–Schur algorithm (named after Derrick Henry Lehmer and Issai Schur) is a root-finding algorithm for complex polynomials, extending the idea of enclosing roots like in the one-dimensional bisection method to the complex ...
, in mathematics, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lehmer code In mathematics and in particular in combinatorics, the Lehmer code is a particular way to encode each possible permutation of a sequence of ''n'' numbers. It is an instance of a scheme for numbering permutations and is an example of an inversion ...
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Lehmer's conjecture (also known as: ''the Lehmer's Mahler measure problem''), a problem in number theory, after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lehmer five, named after Dick Lehmer
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Lehmer's GCD algorithm, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, a rather fast GCD algorithm
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Lehmer matrix, in mathematics, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lehmer mean, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lehmer number, in mathematics
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Lehmer's polynomial, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lucas–Lehmer primality test
In mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer test (LLT) is a primality test for Mersenne numbers. The test was originally developed by Édouard Lucas in 1878 and subsequently proved by Derrick Henry Lehmer in 1930.
The test
The Lucas–Lehmer test works ...
, in mathematics, after Derrick Henry Lehmer
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Lehmer random number generator
The Lehmer random number generator (named after D. H. Lehmer), sometimes also referred to as the Park–Miller random number generator (after Stephen K. Park and Keith W. Miller), is a type of linear congruential generator (LCG) that operate ...
, named after D. H. Lehmer
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Lehmer sieve
Lehmer sieves are mechanical devices that implement sieve theory, sieves in number theory. Lehmer sieves are named for Derrick Norman Lehmer and his son Derrick Henry Lehmer. The father was a professor of mathematics at the University of California ...
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Lucas–Lehmer test
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Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test
In mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test is a primality test for numbers of the form with odd . The test was developed by Hans Riesel and it is based on the Lucas–Lehmer primality test. It is the fastest deterministic algorithm known ...
, in mathematics
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Lemer (disambiguation)
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Lemmer (surname)
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