Carl Pomerance

Mathematician, Award Winner

1944 –

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Who is Carl Pomerance?

Carl Bernard Pomerance is a well-known 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 7 distinct prime factors. He immediately 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
Joplin
Also known as
  • Померанс, Карл
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Brown University
  • Harvard University
Employment
  • University of Georgia
  • Dartmouth College

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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