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]

Edmund Landau
Born
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau

(1877-02-14)14 February 1877
Berlin, Germany
Died19 February 1938(1938-02-19) (aged 61)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Known forDistribution of prime numbers
Landau prime ideal theorem
SpouseMarianne Ehrlich
Scientific career
FieldsNumber theory
Complex analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
University of Göttingen
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisorGeorg Frobenius
Lazarus Fuchs
Doctoral studentsBinyamin 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

  1. "Edmund Landau (1877-1938)". www.ma.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-08-27.