Mathematician:Nelson
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Nelson may refer to:
Frank Nelson Cole $($$\text {1861}$ – $\text {1926}$$)$
American mathematician famous for finding the factors of the Mersenne number $M_{67}$. (It had already been demonstrated by Édouard Lucas in $1876$ that it is not prime, but till this time the factors had not been found.)
Cole's demonstration of this in $1903$ took the form of a now famous lecture On The Factorization of Large Numbers in which he performed the necessary arithmetic on a blackboard, delivering the only totally wordless lecture in recorded history.
The American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize was named in his honor.
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Leonard Nelson $($$\text {1882}$ – $\text {1927}$$)$
German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist.
He devised the Grelling-Nelson Paradox in $1908$ and the related idea of autological words with Kurt Grelling.
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Harry Lewis Nelson $($$\text {b. 1932}$$)$
American mathematician and computer programmer.
Member of the team that won the World Computer Chess Championship in $1983$ and $1986$.
Co-discoverer with David Slowinski of the $27$th Mersenne prime $2^{44 \, 497} − 1$ in $1979$.
Editor of the Journal of Recreational Mathematics for five years.
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R. David Nelson $($$\text {b. 1938}$$)$
English mathematician best known for his work editing the The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics.
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Carol Nelson
Author of:
- 1974: 714 and 715 (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 7, no. 2: pp. 87 – 89) (with D.E. Penney and C. Pomerance)