Mathematician:Atle Selberg
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Mathematician
Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms.
Instrumental in developing a proof of the Prime Number Theorem. Engaged in a bitter dispute with Paul Erdős over priority.
Fields Medal
Atle Selberg was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1950}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA:
- Developed generalizations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of the Riemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of the prime number theorem (with P. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitrary arithmetic progression.
Wolf Prize
Atle Selberg was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1986}$:
- For his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.
Nationality
Norwegian
History
- Born: 14 June 1917 in Langesund, Norway
- Died: 6 August 2007 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1936: On some arithmetical identities
- 1943: On the zeros of Riemann's zeta-function
- 1949: An elementary proof of the prime number theorem
- 1949: An elementary proof of Dirichlet's theorem about primes in an arithmetic progression
- 1950: An elementary proof of the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions
- 1989: Reflections Around the Ramanujan Centenary