| W. R. Alford | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 21, 1937 Canton, Mississippi |
| Died | May 29, 2003 (aged 65) |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
William Robert "Red" Alford (July 21, 1937 – May 29, 2003) was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory.
Biography[edit | edit source]
Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from The Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in mathematics from Tulane University (1963),[1] and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, before returning to the mathematics faculty. He retired in 2002. He died at 65, after suffering from a brain tumor.[2]
With Carl Pomerance and Andrew Granville, he proved the infinitude of Carmichael numbers in 1994[3] based on a conjecture given by Paul Erdős.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ W at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "William R. (Red) Alford". Number Theory Web. http://www.numbertheory.org/obituaries/OTHERS/alford.html. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ↑ W. R. Alford, A. Granville, and C. Pomerance. "There are Infinitely Many Carmichael Numbers." (PostScript) Annals of Mathematics 139 (1994) 703-722.
External links[edit | edit source]
- "William Alford". Archived from the original on June 7, 1997. https://web.archive.org/web/19970607133211/http://www.math.uga.edu/~red/. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
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