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and was supervised by John R. Collins. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1982, Wiens took a faculty position at
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with the property that the positive values of this polynomial, over integer arguments, are exactly the
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in 1977 for their paper describing this result. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled
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Robust Estimation for Multivariate Location and Scale in the Presence of Asymmetry
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from 2004 to 2006 and program chair of the 2003 annual meeting of the
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The Mathematical Association of America's The Lester R. Ford Award
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from Wiens' web site at Alberta, retrieved 2010-02-07.
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Douglas A. Wiens
statistician
University of Alberta
mathematics
mathematical logic
statistics
University of Calgary
Hilbert's tenth problem
diophantine formula for the primes
multivariate polynomial
prime numbers
Lester R. Ford
Mathematical Association of America
Dalhousie University
The Canadian Journal of Statistics
Statistical Society of Canada
Fellow
American Statistical Association


Education and Professional Experience
Sato, Daihachiro
"Diophantine representation of the set of prime numbers"
American Mathematical Monthly
doi
10.2307/2318339
JSTOR
2318339
the original
The Mathematical Association of America's The Lester R. Ford Award

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