Alf van der Poorten AM

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics.
Chair, Academic Senate of the University 1986-1987; 1997-2001.
Head, School of Mathematics and Physics 1980-1987 and School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing, and Electronics 1991-1996.
Director, ceNTRe for Number Theory Research.

Dhc (Docteur honoris causa) conferred by Universite Bordeaux 1, January 9, 1998.
George Szekeres Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2002 .
Appointed Member in the Order of Australia, 2004 for "service to mathematical research and education, particularly in the field of number theory".

If you don't mind a self-indulgent boringly long description, then by all means read Alf's background. Notwithstanding that pretentious 3rd-person stuff, it's obviously autobiographical.

One shouldn't have thought that anyone cares about Alf's personal interests.

Alf's office is now at his home (his mathematics books have displaced his science fiction library) but he can readily be contacted by .
If you have to fax him, try +61 2 9416 6026.

Recent talks as pdf display files: to view click right arrow
Algorithmic Number Theory, Turku 2007: Continued fractions, Composition, Somos sequences
An awful problem ... Gavin Brown 65
Function fields over an infinite base field (Henri Cohen 60)
Paperfolding, automata, and rational functions
Richard Guy is 9 plus 0
In thrall to Fibonacci

Clicking here may allow you to find several of Alf's papers in pdf form.

and here are additional more recent papers in pdf form.

Clicking here displays 1996 versions of my most important publications.

Of course, you may well be looking for stuff about Alf's book Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem.

Emeritus Professor Alfred J van der Poorten AM
ceNTRe for Number Theory Research
1 Bimbil Place
Killara Australia 2071

Mobile: +61 4 1826 3129 Home Phone and Fax: +61 2 9416 6026
Internet: alfATmath.mq.edu.au

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