Robert Charles "Bob" Vaughan
FRS (born 24 March 1945) is a British
mathematician
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, working in the field of
analytic number theory
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Life
Vaughan was born 24 March 1945. He read mathematics at
University College London
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, earning a bachelor's degree with second class honours in 1966.
He completed his PhD in 1970 at the
University of London
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under supervision of
Theodor Estermann.
He supervised
Trevor Wooley's PhD.
After postdoctoral research at the
University of Nottingham
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Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...
and
University of Sheffield
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, he became a lecturer in 1972 at
Imperial College London. He was promoted to reader in 1976 and professor in 1980, and headed the Pure Mathematics Section from 1988 to 1990. Since 1999, he has been Professor at
Pennsylvania State University
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Awards
Vaughan was a 1979 recipient of the Junior Berwick Prize.
Since 1990 Vaughan has been a Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...
.
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-28.
In 1990, he was given an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) by the University of London.
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See also
* Vaughan's identity
Writings
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References
External links
Home page
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1945 births
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Alumni of the University of London
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society