N. G. W. H. Beeger


Nicolaas George Wijnand Henri Beeger was a Dutch mathematician. His 1916 doctorate was on Dirichlet series. He worked for most of his life as a teacher, working on mathematics papers in his spare evenings. After his retirement as a teacher at 65, he began corresponding with many contemporary mathematicians and dedicated himself to his work.
He is known for having proved that 3511 is a Wieferich prime in 1922 and for introducing the term Carmichael number in 1950.

Beeger Lecture

In 1989 the board of trustees of the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam established the Beeger lectures, in honor of N.G.W.H. Beeger, to be held biannually at the congress of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society. Their purpose is to promote research and exchange of ideas in the field of algorithmic and computational number theory. The first Beeger Lecture was delivered in 1992.2024 Andrew Sutherland 2022 Shafi Goldwasser2021 David Harvey2018 Fernando Rodriguez Villegas2016 James Maynard2014 Daniele Micciancio2012 Yuri Bilu2010 Florian Luca2008 Daniel Bernstein2006 Manindra Agrawal2004 Manjul Bhargava2002 Bjorn Poonen2000 Peter Borwein1998 Hendrik Lenstra1996 John Conway1994 Hugh Williams1992 Carl Pomerance

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