Heini Halberstam
Heini Halberstam (born September 11, 1926 in Brüx , Czechoslovakia , † January 25, 2014 in Champaign , Illinois ) was a British mathematician who dealt with analytical number theory.
As a Jew, Heini Halberstam fled from the National Socialists on a “ Kindertransport ” to England, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1946 and his master's degree in 1948 at University College London and his doctorate in 1952 with Theodor Estermann , with a thesis on the Waring problem . From 1946 he was a lecturer at the University of Essex , from 1957 reader at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London and from 1962 Erasmus Smith Professor at Trinity College in Dublin. From 1964 he was a professor at the University of Nottingham (several times as chairman of the mathematics faculty) and from 1980 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as chairman of the mathematics faculty, where he was professor emeritus since 1996. In 1966 he was visiting professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and in 1973 at Tel Aviv University.
Halberstam and Richert wrote a standard work on sieving methods. He was also active in mathematics education (including as a founding member of the Shell Center for Mathematics Education in Nottingham) and was co-editor of the Collected Works of Harold Davenport (with whom he also published), John Edensor Littlewood , William Rowan Hamilton and Loo-Keng Hua . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
He and Peter DTA Elliott made the conjecture of Elliott and Halberstam about the behavior of the error term in the quantitative version of Dirichlet's prime number theorem (1968).
He had been married to Doreen Bramley since 1972 and had four children with her.
Fonts
- with Hans-Egon Richert : Sieve Methods. Academic Press 1974
- with Klaus Friedrich Roth : Sequences. Oxford 1966, Springer 1983
- with Harold Diamond and William Galway: A higher dimensional sieve method. Cambridge University Press 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Heini Halberstam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brief biography at UIUC
- Interview on the "Kindertransport"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary for Heini Halberstam 1/25/2014 , accessed on January 28, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halberstam, Heini |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Must |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 2014 |
| Place of death | Champaign , Illinois |