Ernst Sejersted Selmer

Ernst Sejersted Selmer
Born
(1920-02-11)11 February 1920
Died8 November 2006(2006-11-08) (aged 86)
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Known forAdvanced research within cryptography that formed the basis of modern crypto machines in NATO and NSA
AwardsOrder of St. Olav
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Cryptography, Computer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oslo

Cambridge University

Institute for Advanced Study

University of Bergen

Ernst Sejersted Selmer (11 February 1920[1] – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked in number theory, as well as a cryptologist. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His primary contributions to mathematics reside within the field of diophantine equations.[2] He started working as a cryptologist during the Second World War;[3] due to his work, Norway became a NATO superpower in the field of encryption.[4]

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  2. ^ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Ernst Sejersted Selmer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  3. ^ Selmer, Ernst S. (1993), "From the Memoirs of a Norwegian Cryptologist", EUROCRYPT, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 765, pp. 142–150, doi:10.1007/3-540-48285-7_12, ISBN 978-3-540-57600-6
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