Mathematician:Emma Markovna Lehmer

Mathematician

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.

Publications

• 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

Also known as

Her name at birth was Emma Markovna Trotskaia.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Emma Markovna Lehmer": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive