Mathematician:Robert Scott Rumely

Mathematician

American professor of mathematics specializing in number theory and arithmetic geometry.

He is one of the inventors of the Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely Primality Test.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: June 23, 1952 in Pullman, Washington

Theorems and Definitions

• Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely Primality Test (with Carl Bernard Pomerance and Leonard Max Adleman)

Definitions of concepts named for Robert Scott Rumely can be found here.

Publications

• Jan. 1983: On Distinguishing Prime Numbers from Composite Numbers (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 117, no. 1: pp. 173 – 206) (with Leonard M. Adleman and Carl Pomerance)  www.jstor.org/stable/2006975

• 1989: Capacity Theory on Algebraic Curves
• 2000: Existence of the Sectional Capacity
• 2010: Potential Theory and Dynamics on the Berkovich Projective Line
• 2013: Capacity Theory with Local Rationality: The Strong Fekete-Szegö Theorem on Curves