Ladislaus Chernac

Ladislaus Chernac (1742–1816) was a Hungarian scientist who moved to Deventer in the Netherlands. He is the author of the first published table giving decompositions in prime factors up to one million.

László Csernák was born in Hungary in 1742. He went to school in Debrecen, and then continued to study in Vienna, Basel, and Turin. He eventually went to the Netherlands.

• Ladislaus Chernac: Cribrum arithmeticum, 1811, http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN591322250

• The site http://locomat.loria.fr contains a reconstruction of Chernac's Cribrum arithmeticum.