Mathematician:Emma Markovna Lehmer

Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) was a Russian-born mathematician active mainly in the field of number theory.

The wife of Derrick Henry ("Dick") Lehmer, with whom she was a frequent collaborator. Also an accomplished pianist.

Nationality
Russian-born, later American

History

 * Born: November 6, 1906, Samara, Russian Empire (between 1935 and 1991 known as Kuybyshev)
 * Died: May 7, 2007, Berkeley, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * There isn't, but there really ought to be, an Emma Lehmer Lemma.

Books and Papers

 * 1930: A Numerical Function Applied to Cyclotomy (PhD thesis)
 * 1935: On a resultant connected with Fermat's Last Theorem
 * 1939: Topological Groups (by Pontryagin: translation from Russian into English)
 * 1941: On the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem (with Dick Lehmer)
 * 1971: On the Quadratic Character of Some Quadratic Surds
 * 1978: Rational reciprocity laws