Carl Pomerance
Carl Bernard Pomerance (born in 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) 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.[1] 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.
Contributions
He has over 120 publications, including co-authorship with Richard Crandall of Prime numbers: a computational perspective (Springer-Verlag, first edition 2001, second edition 2005[2]) and co-editing with Michael Th. Rassias of Analytic Number Theory (Springer, 2015[3]). He is the inventor of one of the integer factorization methods, the quadratic sieve algorithm, which was used in 1994 for the factorization of RSA-129. He is also one of the discoverers of the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test.
Awards and honors
He has won many teaching and research awards, including the Chauvenet Prize in 1985, MAA's distinguished university teaching award in 1997, and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He also became the John G. Kemeny Family Professor of Mathematics in the same year.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ Carl Pomerance at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Crandall, R.; Pomerance, C. (2005). Prime numbers: a computational perspective (second ed.). Springer-Verlag, New York. doi:10.1007/0-387-28979-8. ISBN 978-0-387-25282-7.
- ^ Pomerance, C.; Rassias, M. Th. (2015). Analytic Number Theory. Springer, New York. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22240-0. ISBN 978-3-319-22239-4.
- ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org. 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
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External links
- Home page
- 2001 Conant Prize, an article in the Bulletin of the AMS, vol 48:4 (2001), 418–419.
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