Adolf Piltz

Adolf Piltz
Born	(1855-12-08)8 December 1855 Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Died	1940 Großheringen, Thuringia
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Jena
Alma mater	University of Berlin University of Jena
Theses	Über das Gesetz, nach welchem die mittlere Darstellbarkeit der natürlichen Zahlen als Produkte einer gegebenen Anzahl Faktoren mit der Grösse der Zahlen wächst (1881,Ph.D.) Über die Häufigkeit der Primzahlen in arithmetischen Progressionen und über verwandte Gesetze (1884,habil.)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Kummer Karl Weierstrass Carl Johannes Thomae

In Piltz's habilitation thesis (1884) the generalized Riemann hypothesis is mentioned.

Adolf Piltz (8 December 1855^[1] – 1940) was a German mathematician who contributed to number theory. Piltz was arguably the first to formulate a generalized Riemann hypothesis, in 1884.^[2]

Notes

Davenport, Harold. Multiplicative number theory. Third edition. Revised and with a preface by Hugh L. Montgomery. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 74. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. xiv+177 pp. ISBN 0-387-95097-4.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 107781290 GND: 140795456 MGP: 51691

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