Mathematician:Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr.

Mathematician
Dutch mathematician working principally in computational number theory.

Well known as the discoverer of the elliptic curve factorization method.

Co-discoverer of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithm.

The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics, a set of precise conjectures about the structure of class groups of quadratic fields, is named after him.

Brother of, and.

Nationality
Dutch

History

 * Born: 16 April 1949 in Zaandam

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithm (with and )
 * Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics (with )


 * Prime Decomposition of 9th Fermat Number‎ (with, and )