Hans Riesel (1929–2014)

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Proof-code(s):	BR
E-mail address:	(e-mail address unpublished)
Username	Riesel	(entry created on 1/18/2000 18:50:53 UTC)
Database id:	116	(entry last modified on 10/5/2015 15:49:18 UTC)
Active primes:	This entry has no primes on the current list.
Total primes:	number ever on any list: 0.5 (unweighted total: 1)
Production score:	no primes, so no score for current list, total 28.7119

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Obituary: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=411994&postcount=470

[From his web page:] I was born in Stockholm in 1929. I have studied mathematics and numerical analysis at the University of Stockholm. My career with computers started back in 1953 with Sweden's first electronic computer, the BESK (Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator), a variant of the so-called Princeton machine. From 1960 to 1963 I served as head of the math department of the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery, an organization which was swallowed up by SAFAD, the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development. I served the SAFAD until 1969, when I was appointed lecturer in numerical analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. My scientific work has mainly been performed in Computational Mathematics. I have published one major book, "Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization", Birkhäuser, Boston 1985, 2nd ed. 1994.

Surname: Riesel (used for alphabetizing and in codes).
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