Edmund Landau
Edmund Landau · Science & Medicine
Analytic number theory; popularized big-O notation
1877, Berlin, Germany — 1938, Berlin, Germany
Germany
Edmund Landau is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Analytic number theory; popularized big-O notation
Edmund Landau was a German mathematician who made major contributions to analytic number theory, especially the distribution of prime numbers, and popularized the big-O and little-o notation now standard across mathematics and computer science. He was Jewish and was driven from his Göttingen chair by Nazi students in 1933.
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Analytic number theory; popularized big-O notation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
