Sidney Graham

Sidney West Graham is a mathematician interested in analytic number theory and professor at Central Michigan University. He received his Ph.D., which was supervised by Hugh Montgomery, from the University of Michigan in 1977.[1] In his Ph.D. thesis he lowered the upper bound for Linnik's constant to 36 and subsequently reduced the bound further to 20.[2]

Sidney Graham
BornAugust 29, 1950
Oklahoma, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCentral Michigan University, University of Texas-Austin, Michigan Technological University, National Science Foundation
Doctoral advisorHugh Montgomery

References
  1. Sidney Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Graham, S. (1981), "On Linnik's constant", Acta Arithmetica, 39 (2): 163–179, doi:10.4064/aa-39-2-163-179, MR 0639625.


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