Landau, Edmund Georg Hermann

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Landau, Edmund Georg Hermann

 

Born Feb. 14, 1877, in Berlin; died there Feb. 19, 1938. German mathematician.

Landau was appointed a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1909. His studies dealt with analytic number theory and the theory of functions of a complex variable. Proceeding from the properties of the positive integers, Landau wrote a course in analysis constructed with faultless logical rigor.

WORKS

Vorlesungenü ber Zahlentheorie, vols. 1–3. Leipzig, 1927.
In Russian translation:
Osnovy analiza. Moscow, 1947.
Vvedenie v differentsial’noe i integral’noe ischislenie. Moscow, 1948.

REFERENCE

Hardy, G. H., and H. Heilbronn. “Edmund Landau.” The Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 1938, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 302–10.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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