Landon Curt Noll
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| Born | October 28, 1960 Walnut Creek, California, United States |
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| Residence | United States  |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics and Cryptography and Astronomy |
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fremont Peak Observatory |
| Alma mater | California State University, East Bay and Linfield College |
| Known for | International Obfuscated C Code Contest Fowler Noll Vo hash LavaRnd Prime number Vulcanoid asteroid Names of large numbers |
| Notable awards | USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (contributor - 1993) |
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Held or co-held 8 World records relating to large prime numbers. Common username: chongo |
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Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960 Walnut Creek, California, United States)[1][2] is the discoverer of two Mersenne primes, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward.[3] He was also a member of the Amdahl Six[4] team which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime.[5][6] At age 18, Noll became the youngest person to break the record for the largest known prime. He has held or co-held the record three times.[7] He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10.[8] [9] He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest[10], and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function.[11]
Noll is an avid astronomer.[12][13] He coined the phrase meteor squall to describe a significant but not quite storm level meteor shower.[14] His most recent work includes measuring the Solar parallax during the 2004 Transit of Venus[15] as well as the search for Vulcanoid asteroids.[16]
Noll was involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city council member and vice-mayor.[17]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Paul Noll's article on the birth of his son, Landon
- ^ Naming Large Numbers
- ^ The Prime Pages bio for Landon Curt Noll
- ^ The Prime Pages bio for the Amdahl Six
- ^ Generalized Fermat Prime Search
- ^ Yves Gallot's GFN Search Project
- ^ Records by Electronic Computer
- ^ How high can you count?
- ^ The English name of a number
- ^ Frequently Asked Questions about the International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- ^ Fowler/Noll/Vo (FNV) hash history
- ^ American Astronomical Society for Landon Curt Noll
- ^ Landon Curt Noll's Astronomy pages.
- ^ Leonid 2001 meteor shower / squall / storm at Fremont Peak
- ^ Transit of Venus 8 June 2004
- ^ Reference to "The search for Vulcanoid asteroids, Sky and Telescope, Jan 2006, Pages 87-89
- ^ Sunnyvale City Council minutes for 1996 Nov 16
