Nationality Dutch Education Leiden University Alma mater Universiteit Leiden | Name Johannes der Role Mathematician | |
Born 4 September 1890Rotterdam ( 1890-09-04 ) Institutions University of FribourgUniversity of GroningenUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Jurjen KoksmaCornelis Simon Meijer Known for Van der Corput lemmaVan der Corput sequence Died September 16, 1975, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
Notable students Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma | ||
Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput (4 September 1890 – 16 September 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.
He was appointed professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1922, at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, of which he also was the first director. From 1953 on he worked in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1.
He became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929, and foreign member in 1953.