Landon Curt Noll

Landon Curt Noll
Noll in 2007
Born (1960-10-28) October 28, 1960 (age 64)
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Other nameschongo, Lord Ogden
Alma materCalifornia State University, East Bay and Linfield University
Known forInternational Obfuscated C Code Contest
Fowler Noll Vo hash
Lavarand
Prime number
Vulcanoid asteroid
Names of large numbers
AwardsUSENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (contributor - 1993)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics and Cryptography and Astronomy
InstitutionsLawrence 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]

  1. ^ Paul Noll's article on the birth of his son, Landon
  2. ^ Naming Large Numbers
  3. ^ Noll C, Nickel L: The 25th and 26th Mersenne Primes, Mathematics of Computation 35: 1387-1390, doi:10.2307/2006405
  4. ^ The Prime Pages bio for Landon Curt Noll