Johannes van der Corput

Johannes van der Corput
Born (1890-09-04)4 September 1890
Rotterdam
Died 16 September 1975(1975-09-16) (aged 85)
Amsterdam
Nationality  Dutch
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Fribourg
University of Groningen
University of Amsterdam
University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater Universiteit Leiden
Doctoral students Jurjen Koksma
Cornelis Simon Meijer
Known for Van der Corput lemma
Van der Corput sequence

Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput (4 September 1890 – 16 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 lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and 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]

References

  1. "Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (1890 - 1975)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2015.


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