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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. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, and then became a distinguished professor at Dartmouth College. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Pomerance is the 933rd most popular mathematician (up from 942nd in 2024), the 11,325th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,826th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Pomerance ranks 933 out of 1,004. Before him are Fan Chung, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Garfield, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Barry Mazur, and Béla Bollobás. After him are Antoni Zygmund, Yakov Eliashberg, Poul Heegaard, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Krystyna Kuperberg, and Nikolai Durov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Carl Pomerance ranks 672. Before him are Reinhold Bachler, Jack Casady, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Woody Shaw, Svetlana Krachevskaya, and Marilyn Black. After him are Seija Simola, José Urruzmendi, Aleksandr Lenyov, Krystyna Kuperberg, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Pomerance ranks 11,333 out of 20,380. Before him are Adrienne King (1960), George R. Price (1922), Jack Antonoff (1984), Steve Cochran (1917), Curtis Yarvin (1973), Lucy Hale (1989), Brené Brown (1965), Francis Parkman (1823), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), Terrence Mann (1951), Patti Hansen (1956), and Tom Mankiewicz (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Carl Pomerance ranks 85. Before him are Christine Darden (1942), David Blackwell (1919), Martin David Kruskal (1925), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Richard Garfield (1963), and Barry Mazur (1937). After him are Ormond Stone (1847), Cleve Moler (1939), Norman Johnson (1930), David Singmaster (1938), Bill Gosper (1943), and Mary Ellen Rudin (1924).

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