Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.
Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. | |
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| Born | February 21, 1945 |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Alma mater | Cornell University and MIT |
| Known for | Wagstaff prime |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Computer science |
| Institutions | Purdue University University of Georgia University of Rochester University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Samuel Standfield Wagstaff Jr. (born 21 February 1945) is an American
Cunningham project, a project to factor numbers of the form bn ± 1, since 1983. He has authored/coauthored over 50 research papers and four books.[2] He has an Erdős number of 1.[3]
Wagstaff received his
Wagstaff was one of the founding faculty of
COAST
) Laboratory.
Selected publications
- with John L. Selfridge, Bryant Tuckerman: Factorization of bn ± 1, b = 2,3,5,6,7,10,11,12 up to high powers, American Mathematical Society, 1983, 3rd edition 2002 as electronic book, Online text Archived 2005-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. (2002). Mikhail J. Atallah (ed.). Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers. Computational Mathematics Series. CRC Press. ISBN 1-58488-153-4.
- ISBN 1-58488-456-8.
- Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. (2013). The Joy of Factoring. Student Mathematical Library. ISBN 1-4704-1048-6.
- Wagstaff The Cunningham Project, Fields Institute, pdf file
- JSTOR 2006210.
- Robert Baillie; Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. (October 1980). "Lucas Pseudoprimes" (PDF). Mathematics of Computation. 35 (152): 1391–1417. MR 0583518.
- Robert Baillie; Andrew Fiori; Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. (July 2021). "Strengthening the Baillie-PSW Primality Test" (PDF). Mathematics of Computation. 90 (330): 1931–1955. S2CID 220055722.
References
- ^ a b "Purdue University - Department of Computer Science - Samuel S. Wagstaff". www.cs.purdue.edu.
- ^ "Selected Publications of Sam Wagstaff". homes.cerias.purdue.edu.
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- ^ Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr. at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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