A. O. L. Atkin

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Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin, who publishes under the name A. O. L. Atkin, is a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge.[2]

Atkin, along with Noam Elkies, extended Schoof's algorithm to create the Schoof-Elkies-Atkin algorithm.

Atkin, together with Daniel J. Bernstein, developed the Sieve of Atkin.

Atkin is also known for his work on properties of the integer partition function and the monster module.

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  1. ^ Gordon Bamford Preston.
  2. ^ A. O. L. Atkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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