David G. Cantor

David Geoffrey Cantor (1935 – November 19, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.[1] The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm for factoring polynomials is named after him; he and Hans Zassenhaus published it in 1981.[2]

Cantor did his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1956, and earned his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, supervised by Basil Gordon and Ernst Straus.[1][3] He became an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 1962, moved back to UCLA in 1964, and retired in 1991.[1]

In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

See also

• Cantor's algorithm

References

1. In Memoriam: David G. Cantor Professor of Mathematics, 1935 - 2012, UCLA Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2014-12-18.
2. Cantor, David G.; Zassenhaus, Hans (April 1981), "A new algorithm for factoring polynomials over finite fields", Mathematics of Computation, 36 (154): 587–592, doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1981-0606517-5, JSTOR 2007663, MR 0606517.
3. David Geoffrey Cantor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-18.