Analytic number theory

4 lives in this collection worked in analytic number theory, from 1826 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.

Often together with: complex analysis, differential geometry. All fields

  • Bernhard Riemann1826–1866

    Founder of Riemann surfaces and Riemannian geometry, and author of the 1859 paper linking the primes to the zeros of the zeta function.

    complex analysis, differential geometry, analytic number theory

  • Jacques Hadamard1865–1963

    French analyst who proved the prime number theorem, created the theory of entire functions of finite order, and introduced well-posed problems, Hadamard matrices and the study of chaotic geodesic flows.

    complex analysis, analytic number theory, differential geometry

  • G. H. Hardy1877–1947

    Cambridge analyst who, with Littlewood and Ramanujan, created the circle method and much of modern analytic number theory, and who brought rigorous analysis into English mathematics.

    analytic number theory, mathematical analysis, population genetics

  • Atle Selberg1917–2007

    Norwegian number theorist who created the Selberg sieve, an elementary proof of the prime number theorem and the Selberg trace formula.

    analytic number theory, automorphic forms, spectral theory