Mathematician:Hugh Cowie Williams
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Mathematician
Canadian mathematician working mainly in number theory and cryptography.
Discovered the prime nature of the repunit $R_{317}$ in $1978$.
Nationality
Canadian
History
- Born: July 23, 1943 in London, Ontario, Canada
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1965: Solution of the Cattle Problem of Archimedes (Math. Comp. Vol. 19: pp. 671 – 674) (with R.A. German and C.R. Zarnke) www.jstor.org/stable/2003954
- 1981: The Problem of Sierpiński Concerning $k \cdot 2^n + 1$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 37: pp. 229 – 231) (with Robert Baillie and G. Cormack) www.jstor.org/stable/2007516
- 1985: Some Periodic Continued Fractions With Long Periods (Math. Comp. Vol. 44, no. 170: pp. 523 – 532) (with C.D. Patterson) www.jstor.org/stable/2007971
- 1986: The Primality of $R1031$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 47: pp. 703 – 711) (with Harvey Dubner) www.jstor.org/stable/2008184