Alfred van der Poorten

Alfred van der Poorten in Oberwolfach, 2004

Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten AM (16 May 1942 – 9 October 2010) was a Dutch-Australian number theorist, for many years on the mathematics faculties of the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ McCarthy, G. J. (20 October 1993), "Van der Poorten, Alfred Jacobus (1942 – )", Encyclopedia of Australian Science, retrieved 8 March 2012.
  2. ^ Brown, Malcolm (20 December 2010), "Lauded mind brought humour in numbers: Alf van der Poorten, 1942–2010", Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ^ Hunt, David (March 2011), "Obituary: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten" (PDF), Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 38 (1): 33–36.