Albert Mullin (August 25, 1933 – May 16, 2017) was an American engineer and mathematician who is best known for defining the

Euclid–Mullin sequence The Euclid–Mullin sequence is an infinite sequence of distinct prime numbers, in which each element is the least prime factor of one plus the product of all earlier elements. They are named after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, because th ...

Biography

Early life

Albert Mullin was born on August 25, 1933, to LeRoy Mullin and Alleyne Mullin in Lynn, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1955. He went on to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from

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and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois.

Career

Albert became a commissioned Army officer and served for a period of 38 years. He retired from the Army in 1993 having attained the rank of Colonel. He continued to serve as an army civilian with the Space and Strategic Command. During his time as an Army officer and continuing on through his death he was a periodic contributor to the Journal of the

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, the Journal of Symbolic Logic, and the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic.

Honors

Bronze Star Medal The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces, United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious a ...

Bibliography

* Research Problem 8
Recursive function theory (A modern look at a Euclidean idea)
''Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.'', 69 (1963), 737. * Review: M. D. Mesarovic and Y. Takahara, General systems theory: Mathematical foundations, ''Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.'', 81 (1975), 1047–1044.
On new theorems for elementary number theory
''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic'', Vol. 8, Issue 4 1967, 353–356.
A note on a weakened Goldbach-like conjecture
''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic'', Vol. 3, Issue 2 1962, 118–119.

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