Hendrik W. Lenstra#
| Membership Number: | 2300 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~hwl |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2003 Professor of Fundamental and Applied Mathematics at Leiden University
- 1987-2003 Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
- 1978 Professor at the University of Amsterdam
- 1977 PhD from the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational number theory
- Elliptic curve factorization method
- Lattice basis reduction algorithm.
Honours and Awards
- 1984 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1985 Fulkerson Prize
- 1995 Honorary doctorate from Besançon
- 1998 Spinoza Laureate
- 2005 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2009 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
