Paulo Ribenboim

Paulo Ribenboim
Ribenboim (left) with his two brothers in Recife
Born 13 March 1928 (1928-03-13) (age 90)
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Alma mater University of São Paulo
Known for Ribenboim Prize
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Queen's University
Doctoral advisor Jean Dieudonné
Doctoral students Andrew Granville
Website www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Ribenboim.html

Paulo Ribenboim (born March 13, 1928) is a Brazilian-Canadian mathematician who specializes in number theory.

Biography

Ribenboim was born in Recife, Brazil, and has lived in Canada since 1962.[1] He has authored 246 publications including 13 books. Ribenboim has been a professor of mathematics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and is now a professor emeritus.

Jean Dieudonné was one of his doctoral advisors. Andrew Granville has been a doctoral student of Ribenboim.

The Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association is named after him.

Bibliography

  • Paulo Ribenboim (1969) Rings and Modules, Interscience Publishers.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (1989). The Book of Prime Number Records. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-97042-4.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (1995). 13 Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-90432-0.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (1996). The New Book of Prime Number Records. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-94457-9.
  • Collected Papers of Paulo Ribenboim. Queens Univ Campus. 1997. ISBN 978-0-88911-735-8.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (1999). The Little Book of Big Primes. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-97508-5.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (1999). The Theory of Classical Valuations. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98525-1.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (2000). My Numbers, My Friends: Popular Lectures on Number Theory. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98911-2.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (2000). Fermat's Last Theorem for Amateurs. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98508-4.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (2001). Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-95070-9.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (2004). The Little Book of Bigger Primes. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-20169-6.
  • Paulo Ribenboim. (2016). Prime Numbers, Friends Who Give Problems: A Trialogue with Papa Paulo. World-Scientific. ISBN 978-9-814-72581-1.

References

  1. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Paulo Ribenboim", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .


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