Harald Niederreiter

Harald G. Niederreiter (born June 7, 1944) is an Austrian mathematician known for his work in discrepancy theory, algebraic geometry, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and cryptography.

[1][2] He began studying mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1963,[1][2] and finished his doctorate there in 1969, with a thesis on discrepancy in compact abelian groups supervised by Edmund Hlawka.

In 1981 he returned to Austria for a post at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where from 1989 to 2000 he served as director of the Institutes of Information Processing and Discrete Mathematics.

[2] In 1970, Niederreiter began to work on numerical analysis and random number generation, and in 1974 he published the book Uniform Distribution of Sequences.

[2] Niederreiter's book Random Number Generation and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods won the Outstanding Simulation Publication Award.