Donald Dines Wall

Donald Dines Wall
Born(1921-08-13)August 13, 1921
DiedNovember 28, 2000(2000-11-28) (aged 79)
Georgia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forWall–Sun–Sun primes
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorDerrick Henry Lehmer

Donald Dines Wall (August 13, 1921 – November 28, 2000) was an American mathematician working primarily on number theory. He obtained his Ph.D. on normal numbers from University of California, Berkeley in 1949, where his adviser was Derrick Henry Lehmer. His better known papers include the first modern analysis of Fibonacci sequence modulo a positive integer.

Drawing on Wall's work, Zhi-Hong Sun and his twin brother Zhi-Wei Sun proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall–Sun–Sun primes that guided the search for counterexamples to Fermat's Last Theorem.