| Robert Charles Vaughan | |
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| Birth Date: | 24 March 1945 |
| Fields: | Mathematician |
| Workplaces: | Penn State Imperial College |
| Alma Mater: | University of London |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Theodor Estermann |
| Doctoral Students: | Trevor Wooley |
| Known For: | Analytic number theory Exponential sums Hardy–Littlewood circle method |
| 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.
Vaughan was born 24 March 1945. He read mathematics at University College London, earning a bachelor's degree with second class honours in 1966.[1] He completed his PhD in 1970 at the University of London under supervision of Theodor Estermann. He supervised Trevor Wooley's PhD.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham and University of Sheffield, he became a lecturer in 1972 at Imperial College London. He was promoted to reader in 1976 and professor in 1980, and headed the Pure Mathematics Section from 1988 to 1990. Since 1999 he has been Professor at Pennsylvania State University.[1]
Vaughan was a 1979 recipient of the Junior Berwick Prize.[2]
Since 1990 Vaughan has been a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
In 1990 he was given an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) by the University of London.[1]