In the history of mathematics, Edmund Landau is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Edmund Landau as German Jewish mathematician (1877–1938).
Edmund Landau was born at Berlin in 1877. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He was educated at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Französisches Gymnasium Berlin.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as mathematician and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of Göttingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Among his principal works are Landau's problems, Landau's constants and Landau's function. Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
His recorded fields of work are number theory, mathematics and complex analysis.
That the work was done from German Reich matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Edmund Landau died in 1938, aged 61. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Landau's problems
- Notable work: Landau's constants
- Notable work: Landau's function
- Notable work: Landau prime ideal theorem
- Affiliated with University of Göttingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Educated at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Französisches Gymnasium Berlin
- Worked as mathematician and university teacher
