Ernst Sejersted Selmer

Ernst Sejersted Selmer (20 February 1920 – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked on number theory. He also worked as a cryptologist during the second world war.

He was born in Oslo as a son of Ernst W. Selmer. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1952, and was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in the same year. From 1956 to 1987 he was a professor at the University of Bergen. His main work came within diophantine equations.^[1]

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2]

The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him.

On September 25, 1953 he applied for a U.S. Patent for an Electronic Adder. This patent, No. 2,947,479, was awarded on August 2, 1960.^[3]

Publications

Selmer, Ernst S. (1966), Linear recurrence relations over finite fields, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, http://books.google.com/books?id=-gPvAAAAMAAJ

References

^ Henriksen, Petter, ed (2007). "Ernst Sejersted Selmer" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Ernst_Sejersted_Selmer. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
^ Tverberg, Helge. "Minnetale over professor Ernst Sejersted Selmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. http://www.dnva.no/c41070/artikkel/vis.html?tid=41074. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
^ U.S. Patent No. 2,947,479.

Selmer, Ernst S. (1993), "From the Memoirs of a Norwegian Cryptologist", EUROCRYPT, pp. 142–150, doi:10.1007/3-540-48285-7_12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48285-7_12

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