Author: Landau, Edmund Georg Hermann (1877-1938)
Title: A collection of 56 offprints, ca. 1911-1933
Description: various publishers. 1911-1933. 24x16cm, FIFTY-SIX [56] ITEMS. Weighs 1.4 kilos.. Minor wear. Good. ¶ This is a collection of 56 offprints, all authored by the German mathematician Edmund Landau. Several are only a page or two, others run 5 to 3 0 pages. Two bear presentation inscriptions to Prof. Dr. Alwin Walther. [" Landau was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.... Landau taught at the University of Berlin from 1899 to 1909, after which he held a chair at the University of Gö ttingen. He married Marianne Ehrlich, the daughter of the Nobel Prize- winning biologist Paul Ehrlich, in 1905. At the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians Landau listed four problems in number theory about primes that he said were particularly hard using current mathematical methods. They remain unsolved to this day and are now known as Landau's problems...In 1903, Landau gave a much simpler proof than was then known of the prime number theorem and later presented the first systematic treatment of analytic number theory in the Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen (the "Handbuch"). He also made important contributions to complex analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote that no one was ever more passionately devoted to mathematics than Landau ..." - wikipedia].

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