Robert Charles Vaughan (mathematician)

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

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. He supervised Trevor Wooley's PhD.

His main research interest is number theory.

[edit] See also

• Vaughan's identity

[edit] Writings

• (1997) The Hardy–Littlewood Method, 2nd ed., Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 125, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521573474.