Atle SELBERG
born June 14, 1917, Langesund, Norway
Institute for Advanced Study
Developed generalizations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun; achieved major
results on zeros of the Riemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of the
prime number theorem (with P. Erdös), with a generalization to prime numbers
in an arbitrary arithmetic progression.
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International mathematical congresses. An illustrated history 1893 - 1986
Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986
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