Ernst's Home Page

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Holy Doppelgänger, Batman!

In case the topics on this page don't seem to match the "Ernst Mayer" you're looking for, are you perhaps looking for information on one of the following fine fellows? (I believe the Wikipedia term for this sort of thing is "disambiguation):

Famous evolutionary biologist Ernst W. Mayr, late of Harvard University? (Note the slightly different spelling of the last name - the "Mayer" misspelling of his last name is alas extremely common, and probably leaves more than a few people who wind up here wondering what in the dickens Fermat Numbers and Mersenne primes have to do with the modern evolutionary synthesis and the theory of allopatric speciation.) I should consider myself extremely fortunate if, like him, I were still doing important science at age 100. Bookmark this page and come back sometime after May 2063 if you want to find out the answer.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst W. Mayr of the Technische Universität München? (Who happens to also be the thesis advisor of my good friend Alex Kruppa.) Now being confused with *that* fellow I can understand - even his alma mater Stanford University can't get the spelling right, either in their student-tree for him ("Mayer") or the link to it ("Meyer").
University of Basel Atomic-force-Micrsoscopy and Tribology expert Prof. Dr. Ernst Meyer?
Brain-Imaging expert Ernst Meyer of McGill University?
Early-19th-century German sculptor Ernst Mayer?
"International Hotelier of Mystery" Ernst Mayer?

Algorithms and Number-Theoretic Stuff

The Mlucas homepage

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

R. E. Crandall, E. W. Mayer and J. S. Papadopoulos, The twenty-fourth Fermat number is composite, Mathematics of Computation 72 (243), pp.1555-1572, December 2002.

Selected discussion threads on mersenneforum.org:

08 Sep 2006: Soap Box: Evolution: The Scientific Evidence
20 Jun 2005: Fourth known factor of M(M31)
07 Apr 2005: Longest Word, a.k.a. "Mom, how do you spell 'Donaudampfschifffahrtgesellschaftkapitänskajütenvorratschrankschlüssellochsperrriegelhebelbearbeitermehrwertsteuereigenmittelbemessungsgrundlagenbestimmungsverordnungen'?"
17 Dec 2003: Special Form of Mersenne and Fermat Number Factors
01 Dec 2003: Mersenne primes with P=1 mod 4 and P=3 mod 4
11 Nov 2002: Elliptic Curve Method - the theory
25 Sep 2002: FFT explanation for non math guys
24 Sep 2002: Mixed floating/integer transform for faster LL testing

Miscellaneous Musings, Rants, and Commentaries

Permanently Under Construction

Weird Stuff, a.k.a. the Pursuit of Happiness and Other Foibles

(Heh, heh, you said "hap-pe..." oh wait, I did say this page was Safe for Kids, didn't I?)

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