Nationality German Canadian Name Hans Heilbronn Notable awards Royal Society | Role Mathematician | |
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Born Hans Arnold Heilbronn8 October 1908Berlin ( 1908-10-08 ) Institutions University of TorontoUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of Bristol Alma mater University of Gottingen Doctoral students Thomas CallahanInder ChowlaPeter D. T. A. ElliottAlbrecht Frohlich Died April 28, 1975, Toronto, Canada | ||
Education University of Gottingen Notable students Albrecht Frohlich |
Hans Arnold Heilbronn FRS (8 October 1908 – 28 April 1975) was a mathematician.
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Education
He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised his doctorate. In his thesis, he improved a result of Hoheisel on the size of prime gaps.
Life
Heilbronn fled Germany for Britain in 1933 due to the rise of Nazism. He arrived in Cambridge, then found accommodation in Manchester and eventually was offered a position at Bristol University, where he stayed for about one and a half years. There he proved that the class number of the number field
Heilbronn and his wife moved to North America in 1964. He stayed at the California Institute of Technology for a while, then moved on to Toronto, where he was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975. He became a Canadian citizen in 1970.
His PhD students include Inder Chowla and Albrecht Fröhlich.