Atle selberg

Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms.
The pre-eminent mathematicians of the twentieth century, passed away at his home in Princeton, NJ, at the age of ninety.
Atle Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

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Atle Selberg

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Born

14 June 1917
Langesund, Norway

Died

6 August 2007
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Summary

Atle Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.

Biography

Atle Selberg's parents were Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg (1877-1950) and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie (1874-1971). Ole Selberg was a school teacher of mathematics who, at age 48, was awarded his doctorate from the University of Oslo for his thesis Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der algebraisch auflösbaren Gleichungen von PrimzahlgradⓉ. At the time Atle was born his father was senior master at the Middle School in Langesund. However, shortly after Atle was born, his father moved to a school in Voss in Hordaland where he taught for three years. By 1921 he was teaching at Bergen County Middle School. Atle's mother, Anna Skeie, the daughter of the teacher Brigt Arnesen Skeie (1846-1939) and Brita Hansdatter Bru (1842-1915), was also a teacher. Ole and Anna Selberg married on 30 July 1903 in Halandsdal and

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This website is an adjunct to the Atle Selberg Archive, which is in the process of being created at IAS in Princeton. It is intended to serve as a small, but useful resource for members of the mathematical community interested in Selberg's work. Its primary aim is to make easily available a number of Selberg's lectures and related working papers as a kind of "on-line supplement" to his two-volume Collected Papers (published in 1989, 1991). For reasons of general interest, several items of a historically significant or reference nature will also be included.

The bulk of the material collected here consists of scanned files made from items that were found either in Selberg's Fuld Hall office or home study following his passing in 2007. In deciding which items to post, the rule-of-thumb has generally been minimization of any direct overlap with the Collected Papers.

Like most websites, this one is a work-in-progress. At least initially, emphasis will be placed on getting the material "out there" without any lengthy accompanying commentary. Please check back from time-to-tim

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Atle Selberg

Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)

Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.

Early years

Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway, the son of teacher Anna Kristina Selberg and mathematician Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg. Two of his three brothers, Sigmund and Henrik, were also mathematicians. His other brother, Arne, was a professor of engineering. While he was still at school he was influenced by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and he found an exact analytical formula for the partition function as suggested by the works of Ramanujan; however, this result was first published by Hans Rademacher.

He studied at the University of Oslo and completed his doctorate in 1943.

World War II

During World War II, Selberg worked in isolation due to the German occupation of Norway. After the war, h