Andrew Granville

Andrew James Granville (born 1962 ) is a British- Canadian mathematician who has been working in the field of number theory. Since 2002, Granville is a professor at the University of Montreal.

Career

Granville studied from 1980 to 1983 mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1984 he completed his studies with a diploma with distinction. From 1984 to 1987, he received his doctorate with the work of Diophantine Equations with Varying Exponents at Queen 's University in Kingston, Canada. His doctor father was the Brazilian number theorist Paulo Ribenboim. From 1987 to 1989 he worked at the University of Toronto and from 1989 to 1991 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a post-doctoral researcher. From 1991 to 2002, he worked in various capacities at the University of Georgia, from 1995 as a full professor.

Scientific Work

Granville works primarily in the field of analytic number theory. In 1994 he proved with Carl Pomerance and WR (Red) Alford, that there are infinitely many Carmichael numbers. The proof is based on an idea of Paul Erdős. Due to this significant evidence he was with Pomerance as a guest speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994 in Zurich invited (Lecture by Granville: Unexpected Irregularities in the distribution of prime numbers ). Since Granville with Erdős published together wearing the Erdős number 1

In 2007, he found correlations between the Goldbach 's conjecture and the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis.

Granville formulated 1998 related to the abc conjecture weaker conjecture. For research area Granville includes the primes. In 2003 he found an error in the later corrected proof of Goldston and Yildirim.

Honors and Awards

Granville received a number of awards and honors. In 2006 he was the Royal Society of Canada appointed a "Fellow ". In 2008, the Mathematical Association of America Andrew Granville for his work It is easy to deterministic mine Whether a givenName integer is prime awarded the Chauvenet Prize.