Johannes van der Corput

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Johannes Gualtherus van der Corput (Rotterdam, September 4, 1890 - Amsterdam, September 16, 1975) was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.

He was appointed professor 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. Among his students were J. F. Koksma and J. Popken.

[edit] See also

• Van der Corput's method for exponential sums
• Van der Corput sequence