A. O. L. Atkin
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Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin (July 31, 1925 – December 28, 2008), who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of John Littlewood's research students.[2]
Atkin, along with Noam Elkies, extended Schoof's algorithm to create the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm and, together with Daniel J. Bernstein, developed the sieve of Atkin.
He is also known for his work on properties of the integer partition function and the monster module.
Atkin contracted hospital pneumonia, and died on December 28, 2008 in Maywood, Illinois.[3]
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- Atkin, A. O. L. and Lehner, J. (1970), "Hecke operators on Γ0 (m)", Mathematische Annalen 185: 134–160, doi:10.1007/BF01359701, MR0268123, ISSN 0025-5831.
- Atkin, A. O. L. and Morain, F. "Elliptic Curves and Primality Proving." Math. Comput. 61, 29-68, 1993.
- Atkin, A. O. L. and Bernstein, D. J. Prime sieves using binary quadratic forms, Math. Comp. 73 (2004), 1023-1030.[1].
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