- Edmund Landau
Infobox Scientist
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name = Edmund Georg Hermann Landau
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caption = Edmund Landau
birth_date = birth date|1877|2|14|mf=y
birth_place =Berlin, Germany
death_date = death date and age| 1938 |2|19|1877|2|1
death_place =Berlin, Germany
residence =Germany
citizenship =Germany
nationality =Germany
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fields =Number theory Complex analysis
workplaces =University of Berlin University of Göttingen
alma_mater =University of Berlin
doctoral_advisor =Georg Frobenius Lazarus Fuchs
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doctoral_students =Paul Bernays Harald Bohr Hans Heilbronn Dunham Jackson Alexander Ostrowski Carl Ludwig Siegel Arnold Walfisz
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known_for = Distribution of prime numbersLandau prime ideal theorem
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religion =Jewish
footnotes =Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau (
February 14 ,1877 –February 19 ,1938 ) was a German Jewishmathematician and author of over 250 papers onnumber theory .Edmund Landau was born in
Berlin to a wealthyJew ish family. His father was Leopold Landau, a gynecologist. His mother was Johanna Jacoby from a well known German banking family. Landau studiedmathematics at theUniversity of Berlin andreceived his doctorate in 1899 and hishabilitation (the post-doctoralqualification required in German universities) in 1901.Landau taught at the University of
Berlin from 1899 until 1909 and helda chair at theUniversity of Göttingen from 1909 until he was forced outby the Nazi regime in 1933. Thereafter he lectured only outside ofGermany.In 1903 Landau gave a much simpler proof than was then known of the
prime number theorem and later presented the first systematictreatment ofanalytic number theory in the "Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung des Primzahlen", or simply the "Handbuch". He also made important contributionstocomplex analysis .Hardy wrote that no one was ever more passionately devoted to mathematics than Landau. This is amply evidenced by his small book on the axiomatic foundations of analysis and two very important books on number theory.
Translated Works
*Foundations of Analysis, Chelsea Pub Co. ISBN 0-8218-2693-X.
*Differential and Integral Calculus, American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-2830-4.
*Elementary Number Theory, American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-2004-4.ee also
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Landau's function
*Landau prime ideal theorem
*Landau's problems
*Landau's symbol (Big O notation)
*Landau-Kolmogorov inequality
*Landau-Ramanujan constant External links
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* [http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~landau/landau.html Biography at the Hebrew University]
* [http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/books/maor Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist] by Eli Maor, "Trigonometric Delights", page 192.
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