Richard Crandall

Richard Eugene Crandall ( born December 29, 1947 † December 20, 2012 in Portland, Oregon) was an American computer scientist and physicist.

Crandall was known for contributions to algorithmic number theory, especially the development of the Irrational Base Discrete Weighted Transform ( IBDWT ), an important method for finding very large prime numbers. He was, until death an associate professor of computer science and director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College.

With his colleague Joe Buhler he is there involved in the project for the numerical verification of the conjecture of Harry Vandiver and Ernst Eduard Kummer on the class number of cyclotomic bodies.

Writings

  • Pascal Applications for the Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1983, ISBN 978-0-471-87242-9.
  • With Marianne M. Colgrove: Scientific Programming with Macintosh Pascal. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1986, ISBN 978-0-471-82176-2.
  • Projects in Scientific Computation. Springer -Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-0-387-97808-6.
  • Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation. Springer - Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-540-97808-4.
  • With Martin Levich: A Network Orange. Springer -Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-0-387-94647-4.
  • With Carl Pomerance: Prime numbers: A Computational Perspective. Springer -Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-0-387-94777-8.
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