Andrew Granville | |
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Born | 7 September 1962 | (age 61)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Queen's University |
Awards | Ribenboim Prize (1999) Chauvenet Prize (2008) Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (2007, 2009) CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2021) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Université de Montréal University of Georgia |
Doctoral advisor | Paulo Ribenboim |
Doctoral students | Ernest S. Croot III |
Website | dms |
Andrew James Granville (born 7 September 1962) is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.
Education
[edit]Granville received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (1983) and his Certificate of Advanced Studies (Distinction) (1984) from Trinity College, Cambridge University. He received his PhD from Queen's University in 1987[1] and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2006.
Career
[edit]He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at the University of Georgia (UGA) from 1991 until 2002. He was a section speaker in the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians together with Carl Pomerance from UGA.
Research
[edit]Granville's work is mainly in number theory, in particular analytic number theory. Along with Carl Pomerance and W. R. (Red) Alford he proved the infinitude of Carmichael numbers in 1994.[2] This proof was based on a conjecture given by Paul Erdős.
Awards
[edit]Granville won a Lester R. Ford Award in 2007[3] and again in 2009.[4] In 2008, he won the Chauvenet Prize for expository writing from the Mathematical Association of America for his paper "It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime".[5][6] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Other
[edit]Andrew Granville, in collaboration with his sister Jennifer Granville, a film writer,[8] wrote Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, a graphic novel that is a "mathematical detective story"[8] and investigates key concepts in mathematics.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Andrew Granville at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ W. R. Alford; Andrew Granville; Carl Pomerance (1994). "There are infinitely many Carmichael numbers" (PDF). Annals of Mathematics. 139 (3): 703–722. doi:10.2307/2118576. JSTOR 2118576. MR 1283874.
- ^ Andrew Granville; Greg Martin (2006). "Prime Number Races". Amer. Math. Monthly. 113 (1): 1–33. doi:10.2307/27641834. JSTOR 27641834.
- ^ Andrew Granville (2008). "Prime Number Patterns". Amer. Math. Monthly. 115 (4): 279–296. doi:10.1080/00029890.2008.11920529. JSTOR 27642472. S2CID 2924252.
- ^ Andrew Granville (2005). "It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 42 (1): 3–38. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01037-7. MR 2115065.
- ^ "MAA Chauvenet Prize page". Archived from the original on 6 April 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ^ a b An Interview with Andrew Granville, 2008
- ^ Andrew Granville; Jennifer Granville (2019). Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691149158.
External links
[edit]- Professor Granville's Université de Montréal page
- Videos of Andrew Granville in the AV-Portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology