Education
Cornell University.
mathematician university professor
Cornell University.
He is currently a professor of computer science and mathematics at Purdue University who coordinates the Cunningham project, a project to factor numbers of the form bn ± 1, since 1983. He has authored/coauthored over 50 research papers and three books Wagstaff received his Bachelor of Science in 1966 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His doctoral dissertation was titled, On Infinite Matroids, Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 from Cornell University.
Wagstaff was one of the founding faculty of Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue, and its precursor, the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory.