Heini Halberstam
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| Born | 11 September 1926 Combinatorial number theory |
Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 – 25 January 2014[1]) was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968.[2]
Life and career
Halberstam was born in
Nazi occupation progressed, he was one of the 669 children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the Kindertransport, a train that allowed those children to leave Nazi-occupied territory. He was sent to England, where he lived during World War II.[3]
He obtained his PhD in 1952, from
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin;[5] From 1964 until 1980, Halberstam was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. In 1980, he took up a position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and became an Emeritus Professor at UIUC in 1996. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
He is known also for books,
References
- News-Gazette, 27 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014
- Zbl 0238.10030
- ^ Champaign Resident Remembers the Kindertransport, WILL, 19 April 2012.
- ^ Heini Halberstam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ BSHM Gazetteer – D, The British Society for the History of Mathematics, retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 19 January 2013.
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Halberstam, Heini; ISBN 978-0-486-47939-2.
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