What is Peter Montgomery (mathematician)?
[[File:Peter Montgomery.jpg|thumb|240px|Montgomery in 2009]] '''Peter Lawrence Montgomery''' (September 25, 1947 – February 18, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He was born in [[San Francisco, California]]. He widely published in the more mathematical area in the field of [[cryptography]]. He was a researcher in the cryptography group at [[Microsoft Research]]. In 1992, he was awarded a [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] for his work to [[Lenstra elliptic-curve factorization|elliptic curve method]] of [[factorization]]. Montgomery died in [[Thailand]] on February 18, 2020. He was 72.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://iacr.org/people/PeterMontgomery.html|title=Peter Lawrence Montgomery, 1947–2020|publisher=International Association for Cryptologic Research|date=19 February 2020|access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{MathGenealogy|id=39898}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, Peter}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Microsoft]] [[Category:Scientists from San Francisco]] {{US-bio-stub}}