Herman te Riele

Hermanus Johannes Joseph te Riele ( born January 5, 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch mathematician who deals with cryptography, algorithmic number theory and numerical mathematics.

Life

Te Riele acquired in 1970 a mathematics engineering degree at TU Delft (A generalization of the Bernstein operator in approximation theory ) and his doctorate in 1976 in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam by Adriaan van Wijngaarden (A Theoretical and Computational Study of Generalized aliquot sequences ). He has been employed since 1970 as a scientist in the " Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica " (CWI ) in Amsterdam. He heads the group Algorithmic number theory. 1973 to 1987 he headed the department of Numerical Mathematics. In 1995 he was a visiting professor at the University of Technology Sydney and 2001 Visiting scientist at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

Te Riele focused on numerical issues in the context of the Riemann Hypothesis. With Andrew Odlyzko he refuted 1985, the Mertens conjecture ( from the Riemann Hypothesis would have been derived ). In 1987 he found a new upper limit for the Skewes number. He dealt with the factorization of large numbers, amicable numbers, discrete computer tomography as well as with the numerical solution of integral equations, numerical analysis, parallel algorithms and computer simulations, for example, in plasma physics.

In 1997 he broke with G. Effinger, Jean -Marc Deshouillers and D. Zinoviev, the ternary Goldbach conjecture ( every odd number greater than 5 is represented as the sum of three primes ), assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

He was secretary of the organizing committee of the Fifth European Congress of Mathematicians (ECM ) 2008 in Amsterdam.

Herman te Riele is married and has three children.