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Peter D. T. A. Elliott

b. 1941

American mathematician

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Born 1941. Peter D. T. A. Elliott is an American mathematician and university teacher.

Peter D. T. A. Elliott (born 1941) is an American mathematician, working in the field of number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named.

He obtained his PhD in 1969, from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Harold Davenport. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Books

Probabilistic Number Theory I - Mean Value Theorems, Spring-Verlag New York, 1979 Probabilistic Number Theory II - Central Limit Theorems, Springer-Verlag New York, 1980 Arithmetic Functions and Integer Products, Springer-Verlag New York, 1985 Duality in Analytic Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1997 Analytic and Elementary Number Theory - A Tribute to Mathematical Legend Paul Erdos, Krishnaswami Alladi, Andrew Granville, and G. Tenenbaum, Springer US, 1998

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Important facts

Born
1941
Birth century
Nationality
Education
University of Cambridge
Positions held
Professor emeritus
Employers
University of Colorado
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship

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American mathematician

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Peter D. T. A. Elliott was born in 1941.

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Peter D. T. A. Elliott is a mathematician and university teacher.

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· Wikipedia: Peter D. T. A. Elliott

· Wikidata: Q7173511

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