Ladislaus Chernac

Ladislaus Chernac (1742–1816) was a Hungarian scientist who moved to Deventer in the Netherlands. He is the author of the first published table giving decompositions in factors up to one million.

Biography

László Csernák was born in Hungary in 1742. He went to school in Debrecen, and then continued to study in Vienna, Basel, and Turin. He eventually went to the Netherlands.

Works

Ladislaus Chernac: Cribrum arithmeticum, 1811, http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN591322250

External links

The site http://locomat.loria.fr contains a reconstruction of Chernac's Cribrum arithmeticum.

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