Mathematician:Edmund Georg Hermann Landau

Mathematician
German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis. Suffered, as did (and still do) so many others, at the hands of the Nazi regime.

What made this particularly poignant is that a considerable amount of his persecution was at the hands of one of his students,.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 14 February 1877 in Berlin, Germany
 * Died: 19 February 1938 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Landau's Function
 * Landau Prime Ideal Theorem
 * Landau's Problems
 * Landau's Symbol (Big O Notation)
 * Landau-Kolmogorov Inequality (with )
 * Landau-Ramanujan Constant (with )
 * Landau's Problem on the Dirichlet Eta Function

Books and Papers

 * 1909: Handbuch der Lehre von der Verteilung der Primzahlen (2 volumes)
 * 1927: Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (Lectures on Number Theory)