Robert Charles "Bob" Vaughan
FRS (born 24 March 1945) is a British
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
, working in the field of
analytic number theory.
Life
Since 1999 he has been Professor at
Pennsylvania State University
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, and since 1990
Fellow of the Royal Society
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. He did his
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* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
at the
University of London
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under supervision of
Theodor Estermann.
He supervised
Trevor Wooley's PhD.
Awards
In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-28.
See also
* Vaughan's identity
Writings
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References
External links
Robert C. Vaughan's Home page
(includes CV and list of publications)
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1945 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Alumni of the University of London
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society