- Johannes van der Corput
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Johannes van der Corput Born September 4, 1890
RotterdamDied September 16, 1975 (aged 85)
AmsterdamNationality 
DutchFields Mathematics Institutions University of Groningen
University of Amsterdam
University of California, BerkeleyAlma mater Universiteit Leiden Doctoral advisor Jan Cornelis Kluyver Doctoral students Jurjen Koksma
Cornelis Meijer
Jan PopkenKnown for Van der Corput's method for exponential sums
Van der Corput lemma
Van der Corput sequenceJohannes Gualtherus van der Corput (September 4, 1890 – September 16, 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.
He was appointed professor at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, of which he also was the first director. From 1953 on he worked in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Among his students were Jurjen Koksma and Jan Popken. His Erdos number is 2.
References
- N.G. de Bruijn (1977). "Johannes G. van der Corput (1890-1975)—A biographical note". Acta Arithmetica 32: 207–208.
- Johannes van der Corput at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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