Mathematician:Arnold Walfisz

Mathematician

Polish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.

Founded the mathematical journal Acta Arithmetica with Salomon Lubelski.

Nationality

Polish

History

• Born: 2 July 1892 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Poland)
• Died: 9 May 1962 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet Union

Theorems and Definitions

• Siegel-Walfisz Theorem (with Carl Ludwig Siegel)

Results named for Arnold Walfisz can be found here.

Publications

• 1935: Founded Acta Arithmetica (with Salomon Lubelski)

• 1962: Pell's Equation
• 1957: Gitterpunkte in mehrdimensionalen Kugeln (Lattice points in multi-dimensional spheres)
• 1963: Weylsche Exponentialsummen in der neueren Zahlentheorie (Weyl exponential sums in the newer number theory)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Arnold Walfisz": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive