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William "Red" Alford

William Robert "Red" Alford was an American mathematician and lawyer, who was best known for his work in the fields of topology and number theory.

Personal life
Alford was born in Canton, Mississippi, to parents Clayton and Pennington Alford. After graduating high school, Alford became a member of the United States Air Force, and earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from The Citadel (1959). Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Tulane University (1963), == Mathematics ==
Mathematics
Alford's dissertation at Tulane was entitled: Some Wild Embeddings of the One and Two Dimensional Spheres in the Three Sphere. In 1994, in a paper with Andrew Granville and Carl Pomerance, he proved the infinitude of Carmichael numbers ==References==
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