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# Carl Pomerance

(1944)   Mathematician

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Carl Pomerance is a mathematician, best known for *Combinatorial Number Theory*.

## Quick Facts About Carl Pomerance

Born November 24, 1944

Profession Mathematician

Notable works Combinatorial Number Theory

## About Carl Pomerance

Carl Bernard Pomerance 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.

##  Quotes by Carl Pomerance

> [With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-pomerance/with-randomness-it-is-very-unlikely-to-be-embarrassed-but-even-if-you/)

[Carl Pomerance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-pomerance/)

[Embarrassed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/embarrassed/)

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> [Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-pomerance/theorems-are-fun-especially-when-you-are-the-prover-but-then-the/)

[Carl Pomerance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-pomerance/)

[Fades](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fades/)

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> [The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-pomerance/the-largest-known-prime-number-is-2-32582657-1-i-am-proud-to-say-that/)

[Carl Pomerance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-pomerance/)

[Binary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/binary/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/141/carl-pomerance-71224_binary_the-largest-known-prime-number-is-2-3258_932582.png)

> [Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-pomerance/log-log-log-x-goes-off-to-infinity-with-x-but-has-never-been-observed/)

[Carl Pomerance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-pomerance/)

[Goes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/goes/)

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