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German-Hungarian mathematician
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Birth:
8 April 1903(Budapest, Hungary)
Death:
15 January 1958(Baltimore, USA)
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Leipzig University
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.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.
Works
- Spektraltheorie der unendlichen Matrizen, 1929
- The Analytical Foundations of Celestial Mechanics, 1941 (reprinted in 2014 by Dover)
- Eratosthenian Averages, 1943
- The Theory of Measure in Arithmetical Semi-Groups, 1944
- An Arithmetical Approach to Ordinary Fourier Series, 1945
- The Fourier Transforms of Probability Distributions, 1947