British mathematician (born 1962)
Andrew James Granville (born 7 September 1962) is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory .
Education
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
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
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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
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
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]
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