Richard Crandall

Richard E. Crandall (December 29, 1947 – December 20, 2012) was an American physicist and computer scientist who made contributions to computational number theory.

Work

Crandall was most notable for the development of the irrational base discrete weighted transform, a method of finding very large primes. He was, at various times, Chief Scientist at NeXT Inc. and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. At the time of his death[1] on December 20, 2012, Crandall was the Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and director of the Center for Advanced Computation[2] at Reed College. He fronted a band called the Chameleons in 1981.[3] Crandall was also Apple Distinguished Scientist and head of Apple's Advanced Computation Group.

He was awarded numerous patents for his work in the field of cryptography. Crandall also owned and operated PSI Press, an online publishing company.

Crandall died in Portland, Oregon on the morning of December 20, 2012 of acute leukemia. He was 64 years old.[1]

Books

  • Pascal Applications for the Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1983.
  • with M. M. Colgrove: Scientific Programming with Macintosh Pascal. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1986.
  • Mathematica for the Sciences, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, 1991.
  • Projects in Scientific Computation. Springer 1994.
  • Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation. Springer 1996.
  • with M. Levich: A Network Orange. Springer 1997.
  • with C. Pomerance: Prime numbers: A Computational Perspective. Springer 2001.

References

  1. 1 2 Lydgate, Chris (December 20, 2012). "Prof. Richard Crandall dead at 64". Reed Magazine.
  2. ↑ Weege, Tez (August 10, 2001). "Scientists Envision Applications for Pi In Encrypted Internet Transactions". The Daily Californian.
  3. ↑ Foggin, Mik (October 13, 2005). "The Chameleons (UK) Frequently Asked Questions (note by Damian Ramsay)". The Chameleons website.
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