Samuel Patterson

Samuel James Patterson (born September 7, 1948 in Belfast ) is a British mathematician who deals with analytical number theory.

Samuel Patterson (2nd from right) 2004 in Oberwolfach, with (from left) Martin Huxley , Yōichi Motohashi , Matti Jutila

biography

Patterson received his PhD in 1975 from Alan Beardon at Cambridge University (The limit set of a Fuchsian Group). He has been a professor at the University of Göttingen since 1981 .

Patterson deals, among other things, with discontinuous groups ( Fuchsian groups ), different zeta functions (for example those of Ruelle and Selberg), metaplectic groups, generalized theta functions , exponential sums in analytical number theory. He also deals with the history of mathematics and gave, for example (after he had already contributed to the new edition of Weyl's "Idea of the Riemann Surface") together with Ralf Meyer, the lecture "Introduction to Function Theory" by Hermann Weyl (Birkhäuser).

With Roger Heath-Brown in 1979 he refuted the sorrow assumption about the value distribution of special cubic Gaussian sums.

In 1984 he received the Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society . He is deputy chairman of the Gauß Society in Göttingen and in the management committee of the Leibniz archive. Patterson is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1998). He was long one of the editors of the Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics .

Jörg Brüdern is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

Introduction to the theory of the Riemann Zeta Function, Cambridge University Press 1988
Erich Hecke and the role of the L series in number theory, in Gerd Fischer (editor): A century of mathematics 1890-1990. Festschrift for the anniversary of the DMV , Vieweg 1990

swell

Klaus Schreiber: Information resources for libraries (IFB). Biographical Information Media, supplement 9, Berlin, 1999, German Library Institute

literature

Valentin Blomer (Editor) Contributions in analytic and algebraic number theory: festschrift in honor of SJ Patterson , Springer Verlag 2011

Individual evidence

↑ See list of members of the German Mathematicians Association , 2007.
^ Heath-Brown, Patterson "The distribution of grief sums at prime arguments", J. Reine Angew. Math. 310, 1979, 111-130

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personal data
SURNAME	Patterson, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Patterson, Samuel James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belfast

[1] See list of members of the German Mathematicians Association , 2007.

[2] Heath-Brown, Patterson "The distribution of grief sums at prime arguments", J. Reine Angew. Math. 310, 1979, 111-130