Mathematician:Viggo Brun

Mathematician
Norwegian mathematician best known for his work in number theory.

Nationality
Norwegian

History

 * Born: 13 October 1885 in Lier, Hordaland County, Norway
 * Died: 15 August 1978 in Drøbak, Akershus County, Norway

Theorems and Definitions

 * Brun's Constant
 * Brun Sieve
 * Brun's Theorem
 * Brun-Titchmarsh Theorem (with )

Publications







 * 1920 Le crible de Eratosthène et le théorème de Goldbach


 * 1941: Quadrature of the circle


 * 1942: The study of the prime numbers from antiquity to our time


 * 1950: Music and ternary continued fractions


 * 1951: Wallis's and Brouncker's formulas for $\pi$


 * 1953: Niels Henrik Abel


 * 1953: The manuscript of Abel's Paris treatise found


 * 1958: A letter by Niels Henrick Abel from his youth (with )


 * 1961: Music and Euclidean algorithms


 * 1962: The Art of Calculating in Old Norway until the Time of Abel


 * 1964: All is Number, a History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Renaissance