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Ernst Sejersted Selmer (20 February 1920 – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician who worked on number theory. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His main work came within diophantine equations. He worked as a cryptologist during the second world war. He was born in Oslo as a son of Ernst W. Selmer. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1952 and was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in the same year. Selmer received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to study in the United States for the years 1951-1952.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/15242f30-6631-4d06-b386-bd7f6d55d626-1952.pdf )〕 He arrived in January of 1951 as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. where the IAS computer was being constructed for John Von Neumann. From Princeton, Selmer traveled to Berkeley where he contributed to Paul Morton's construction of the CALDIC computer. He was hired by Consolidated Engineering Corporation (CEC) as a consultant late in 1951 and designed much of the logic for their Datatron computer, working closely with other CEC employees such as Sibyl M. Rock. He returned to the Institute for Advanced Study again as a visiting scholar in 1952.〔(Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars )〕 On September 25, 1953 Selmer applied for a U.S. Patent for an Electronic Adder. This patent, No. 2,947,479, was awarded on August 2, 1960.〔 U.S. Patent No. 2,947,479.〕 From 1956 to 1987 he was a professor at the University of Bergen. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. ==Publications== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernst Sejersted Selmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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