Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist.
He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors.
[1] He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982.
He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, and then became a distinguished professor at Dartmouth College.
He has won many teaching and research awards, including the Chauvenet Prize in 1985,[4] the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics in 1997,[5] and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001 for "A Tale of Two Sieves".