John Pollard
John M. Pollard (? - ) British mathematician, best known for devising various integer factorization algorithms, such as Pollard’s method (http://planetmath.org/PollardsP1Algorithm) and Pollard’s method. Pollard has Erdős number (http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber) 3: he coauthored with Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr. (and others) a paper of the number field sieve in Lecture Notes in Math., 1554, who collaborated with Jeffrey Shallit on a paper on continued fractions
for Math. Comp. 61, who co-authored with Erdős “New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series” in Sém. Théor. Nombres Bordeaux 2 3.
| Title | John Pollard |
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| Canonical name | JohnPollard |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:44:05 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:44:05 |
| Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
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| Numerical id | 6 |
| Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A61 |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Classification | msc 01A65 |