Aurel Wintner

Aurel Wintner
Born (1903-04-08)8 April 1903
Budapest, Hungary
Died 15 January 1958(1958-01-15) (aged 54)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality Austrian-Hungarian American
Alma mater University of Leipzig
Known for Jessen–Wintner theorem
Wiener-Wintner theorem
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisor Leon Lichtenstein
Doctoral students Shlomo Sternberg
Philip Hartman

Aurel Friedrich Wintner (8 April 1903 – 15 January 1958) was a mathematician noted for his research in mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability theory.[1] He was one of the founders of probabilistic number theory. He received his Ph.D from the University of Leipzig in 1928 under the guidance of Leon Lichtenstein. He taught at Johns Hopkins University.

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References

  1. ↑ Hartman, Philip (1962). "Aurel Wintner". J. London Math. Soc. 37: 483–503. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-37.1.483.
  2. ↑ Tamarkin, J. D. (1931). "Review: Aurel Wintner, Spektraltheorie der unendlichen Matrizen. Einführung in den analytischen Apparat der Quantenmechanik". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (9, Part 1): 651–652. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05207-1.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Aurel Wintner", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • Aurel Wintner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Spektraltheorie Der Unendlichen Matrizen at the Internet Archive


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