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Carl Pomerance
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1944 · age 81
Carl Bernard Pomerance is an American number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors.
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He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, and then became a distinguished professor at Dartmouth College.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 81
