Carl Pomerance
Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 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 with Paul Erdős.[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,[4] MAA's Deborah and Franklin Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997, and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001 for "A Tale of Two Sieves".[5]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] He also became the John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics in the same year.[7][8]
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.
- ^ Canfield, E.R; Erdös, Paul; Pomerance, Carl (1983). "On a problem of Oppenheim concerning "factorisatio numerorum"". Journal of Number Theory. 17 (1). Elsevier BV: 1–28. doi:10.1016/0022-314x(83)90002-1. ISSN 0022-314X.
- ^ Pomerance, Carl (1981). "Recent developments in primality testing". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 3 (3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 97–105. doi:10.1007/bf03022861. ISSN 0343-6993. S2CID 121750836.
- ^ Pomerance, Carl (December 1996). "A Tale of Two Sieves". Notices of the AMS. 43 (12): 1473–1485.
- ^ "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org. 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Blumberg, Joseph (2012-11-08). "Dartmouth Mathematicians Honored by Preeminent Professional Society | Dartmouth News". Dartmouth News. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Pomerance, Carl. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
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