Johannes van der Corput
| Johannes van der Corput | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 September 1890 Rotterdam |
| Died |
16 September 1975 (aged 85) Amsterdam |
| Nationality |
 Dutch |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Fribourg University of Groningen University of Amsterdam University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Universiteit Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan Cornelis Kluyver |
| Doctoral students |
Jurjen Koksma Cornelis Simon Meijer Jan Popken |
| Known for |
Van der Corput's method for exponential sums Van der Corput lemma Van der Corput sequence |
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.
Among his students were Jurjen Koksma and Jan Popken. His Erdős number is 2.
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.
References
- N.G. de Bruijn (1977). "Johannes G. van der Corput (1890-1975)—A biographical note". Acta Arithmetica 32: 207–208.
- Johannes van der Corput at the Mathematics Genealogy Project