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Carl Pomerance

1944 - Today

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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. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Pomerance has received more than 86,964 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Pomerance is the 942nd most popular mathematician, the 11,822nd most popular biography from United States and the 86th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Pomerance ranks 942 out of 1,004. Before him are Graham Higman, Alexander Aitken, Émile Léonard Mathieu, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Yakov Eliashberg, and Leonard Jimmie Savage. After him are Andrew M. Gleason, Bill Gosper, Neil Sloane, Timothy Gowers, David Blackwell, and Sun-Yung Alice Chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Carl Pomerance ranks 689. Before him are Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Andrew Davis, Loren Shriver, Peter Giles, Washington Rodríguez, and Avinash Dixit. After him are David Kelly, John-David F. Bartoe, Mike Enzi, Marta Kristen, Ann Oakley, and Shelley Fabares.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Pomerance ranks 11,822 out of 20,380. Before him are Calvin Murphy (1948), Muhal Richard Abrams (1930), Janet Evanovich (1943), Daniel Everett (1951), Ron Klain (1961), and Jeffrey Nordling (1962). After him are Amber Tamblyn (1983), Richard Carlson (1912), Auliʻi Cravalho (2000), John Hagee (1940), Gino Pariani (1928), and Matilda Howell (1859).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Carl Pomerance ranks 86. Before him are Martin David Kruskal (1925), Elwyn Berlekamp (1940), George Mostow (1923), Ormond Stone (1847), David Singmaster (1938), and Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917). After him are Andrew M. Gleason (1921), Bill Gosper (1943), David Blackwell (1919), Richard Schoen (1950), Mary Ellen Rudin (1924), and Eric W. Weisstein (1969).

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