Johannes van der Corput
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Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput (4 September 1890 – 13 September 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.
He was appointed professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1922, at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, of which he also was the first director. From 1953 on he worked in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He introduced the
van der Corput theorem
on equidistribution modulo 1.
He became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929, and foreign member in 1953.[1] He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1936 in Oslo.[2]
See also
- van der Corput inequality
- van der Corput lemma (harmonic analysis)
- van der Corput's method
- van der Corput sequence
- van der Corput's theorem
References
- ^ "Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (1890 - 1975)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ Corput, J. G. van der (1937). "Diophantische Approximationen". In: Comptes rendus du Congrès international des mathématiciens: Oslo, 1936. Vol. 1. pp. 249–260.
- N.G. de Bruijn (1977). "Johannes G. van der Corput (1890-1975)—A biographical note". .
- Johannes van der Corput at the Mathematics Genealogy Project