Carl Pomerance

 (born in 1944 in, ) is an American. He attended college at and later received his  from  in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd  has at least 7 distinct s. He immediately joined the faculty at the, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at for a number of years, and then became a  at Dartmouth College

Quotes

 * Maybe so, but something is going on with the primes.
 * In response to Albert Einstein's (1943) quote "God doesn't play dice [with the universe]." From a 1997 lecture by Carl Pomerance on the Erdos-Kac theorem.
 * Due to a newspaper misprint, this quote is often misattributed to Paul Erdős.


 * You can ask the question about these ancient topics, such as s and ... and ask, are these good problems... I'd like to give a small amount of evidence... that they are... [S]tudying them helped us develop all of elementary number theory and from elementary number theory we developed the rest of number theory, and also you can argue that from elementary number theory came algebra..
 * "Paul Erdős and the Rise of Statistical Thinking in Elementary Number Theory" (July, 2013) Erdős Centennial Conference, Budapest.