Difference between revisions of "Atle Selberg"

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-Atle Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway, on 14th June, 1917. He studied mathematics at the University of Oslo and obtained his Ph.D in 1943. <ref>[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAselberg.htm Atle Selberg]</ref>
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-He is a Norwegian mathematician who provided a long-awaited elementary proof in 1948 of the prime number theorem, around the same time that [[Paul Erdős]] provided an independent proof.  He immigrated to the United States and works at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
-He introduced spectral theory into number theory and developed the Selberg trace formula.
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-[http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Selberg.html A Biography of Atle Selberg]