Nicolaas George Wijnand Henri Beeger (1884, in

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– 1965, in

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) was a Dutch

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. His 1916

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was on

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. He worked for most of his life as a teacher, working on mathematics papers in his spare evenings. After his retirement as a teacher at 65, he began corresponding with many contemporary mathematicians and dedicated himself to his work. He is known for having proved that 3511 is a

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in 1922 and for introducing the term

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in 1950.

Beeger Lecture

In 1989 the board of trustees of the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam established the Beeger lectures, in honor of N.G.W.H. Begger, to be held biannually at the congress of the

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. Their purpose is to promote research and exchange of ideas in the field of algorithmic and computational number theory. The first Beeger Lecture was delivered in 1992. * 2024 Andrew Sutherland * 2022

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* 2002

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* 1998

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* 1996

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* 1994

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Works

* (N. G. W. H. Beeger ed.),

Jakob Philipp Kulik Jakob Philipp Kulik (1793–1863) was an Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables. Biography Kulik was born in Lemberg, which was part of the Austrian empire, and is now Lviv located in Ukraine. Kulik's fa ...

, Luigi Poletti, R. J. Porter, ''Liste des nombres premiers du onzième million: (plus précisément de 10.006.741 à 10.999.997)'', Association française pour l'avancement des sciences, Ed. "Werto", 1951

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