Biography:Landon Curt Noll
Landon Curt Noll | |
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 Noll in 2007 | |
| Born | October 28, 1960 Walnut Creek, California, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Other names | chongo, Lord Ogden |
| Alma mater | California State University, East Bay and Linfield University |
| Known for | International Obfuscated C Code Contest Fowler Noll Vo hash Lavarand Prime number Vulcanoid asteroid Names of large numbers |
| Awards | USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (contributor - 1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics and Cryptography and Astronomy |
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fremont Peak Observatory |
| Notes | |
Held or co-held 8 World records relating to large prime numbers. Common username: chongo | |
Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960)[1][2] is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th,[3] which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward.[4]
Biography
Noll was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States . At age 18, he became the youngest person to break the record for the largest known prime. He has held or co-held the record three times.[5] He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10.[6][7] He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest,[8] and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function.[9]
He was also a member of the Amdahl Six[10] team (John S. Brown, Bodo Parady, Curt Landon Noll, Gene W. Smith, Joel F. Smith, and Sergio E. Zarantonello) which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime.[11][12]
Noll is an amateur astronomer.[13][14] His work includes measuring the Solar parallax during the 2004 Transit of Venus[15] as well as the search for Vulcanoid asteroids.[16]
He was also involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city council member and vice-mayor.[17]
Notes
- ↑ Paul Noll's article on the birth of his son, Landon
- ↑ Naming Large Numbers
- ↑ Noll C, Nickel L: The 25th and 26th Mersenne Primes, Mathematics of Computation 35: 1387-1390
- ↑ The Prime Pages bio for Landon Curt Noll
- ↑ Records by Electronic Computer
- ↑ How high can you count?
- ↑ "The English name of a number". http://www.isthe.com/cgi-bin/number.cgi.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions about the International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- ↑ Fowler/Noll/Vo (FNV) hash history
- ↑ The Prime Pages bio for the Amdahl Six
- ↑ Generalized Fermat Prime Search
- ↑ Yves Gallot's GFN Search Project
- ↑ "American Astronomical Society for Landon Curt Noll". http://members.aas.org/directory/memberdetails.cfm?Par=27859.
- ↑ Landon Curt Noll's Astronomy pages.
- ↑ Transit of Venus 8 June 2004
- ↑ Reference to "The search for Vulcanoid asteroids, Sky and Telescope, Jan 2006, Pages 87-89
- ↑ "Minutes, Sunnyvale City Council, 19 November 1996". Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100223105320/http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/council-minutes/1996/minutes11-19-96.htm.
External links
- Landon Curt Noll's home page
- Noll Primer Prover Bio
- Amdahl Six
- How High can you count?
- International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- Fowler Noll Vo hash
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