Bob Vaughan

For other people of the same name, see Robert Vaughan (disambiguation).
Robert Charles Vaughan

R. C. Vaughan in 2008
Born ( 1945 -03-24) March 24, 1945
Fields Mathematician
Institutions Penn State
Alma mater University of London
Doctoral advisor Theodor Estermann
Doctoral students Trevor Wooley
Known for Analytic number theory
Exponential sums
Hardy–Littlewood circle method
Notable awards Berwick Prize (1979)
Fellow of the Royal Society

Robert Charles "Bob" Vaughan FRS (born 24 March 1945) is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.

Life

Since 1999 he has been Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and since 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society. He did his PhD at the University of London under supervision of Theodor Estermann.[1] He supervised Trevor Wooley's PhD.[1]

Awards

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

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