Education
University of Amsterdam.
mathematician university professor
University of Amsterdam.
Received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1977 and became a professor there in 1978. In 1987 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. Starting in 1998, he divided his time between Berkeley and the University of Leiden, until 2003, when he retired from Berkeley to take a full-time position at Leiden. has worked principally in computational number theory and is well known as the discoverer of the elliptic curve factorization method and a co-discoverer of the ––Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm.
January Karel is the former director of the Netherlands Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).
Hendrik was the Chairman of the Program Committee of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.
In 1984 Lenstra became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He won the Fulkerson Prize in 1985 for his research using the geometry of numbers to solve integer programs with few variables in time polynomial in the number of constraints. He was awarded the Spinoza Prize in 1998, and on 24 April 2009 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2009, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
