Edmund Landau
German Jewish mathematician (1877-1938)
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German mathematician. He worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.[1]
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Born | Edmund Georg Hermann Landau 14 February 1877 Berlin, Germany |
Died | 19 February 1938 Berlin, Germany | (aged 61)
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Known for | Distribution of prime numbers Landau prime ideal theorem |
Spouse | Marianne Ehrlich |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Number theory Complex analysis |
Institutions | University of Berlin University of Göttingen Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Doctoral advisor | Georg Frobenius Lazarus Fuchs |
Doctoral students | Binyamin Amirà Paul Bernays Harald Bohr Gustav Doetsch Hans Heilbronn Grete Hermann Dunham Jackson Erich Kamke Aubrey J. Kempner Alexander Ostrowski Carl Ludwig Siegel Arnold Walfisz Vojtěch Jarník |
He participated Landau Problems during the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians.
References
change- ↑ "Edmund Landau (1877-1938)". www.ma.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-08-27.