Mathematician:Noam David Elkies

Mathematician

American mathematician and chess master.

With Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin, extended Schoof's Algorithm to create the Schoof-Elkies-Atkin Algorithm.

Found the first known counterexample to the Euler Quartic Conjecture.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: August 25, 1966 in New York City
• 1993: Became youngest full professor in the history of Harvard University

Theorems and Definitions

• Schoof-Elkies-Atkin Algorithm (with Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin and René Schoof)

Publications

• Oct. 1988: On $A^4 + B^4 + C^4 = D^4$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 51, no. 184: pp. 825 – 835)  www.jstor.org/stable/2008781