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Carl Pomerance

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American mathematician

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1944 · age 81
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Carl Bernard Pomerance is an American number theorist. D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982.

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2013Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
1985Chauvenet Prize

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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. 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.

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Born 1944 · age 81
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