Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt | |
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Born |
Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
18 May 1854
Died | 27 October 1925 Danzig-Langfuhr |
(aged 71)
Fields | Mathematics |
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Doctoral advisor |
Karl Weierstrass Ernst Kummer |
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854–1925) was a German mathematician who contributed to the solution of the prime number theorem.
Mangoldt completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D) in 1878 at the University of Berlin, where his supervisors were Ernst Kummer and Karl Weierstrass. He contributed to the solution of the prime number theorem by providing rigorous proofs of two statements in Bernhard Riemann's seminal paper "On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude". Riemann himself had only given partial proofs of these statements. Mangoldt worked as professor at the RWTH Aachen and was succeeded by Otto Blumenthal.