Mathematician:Edmund Georg Hermann Landau

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.

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 Andrey Kolmogorov)
 * Landau-Ramanujan Constant (with Srinivasa Ramanujan)
 * 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)