Helmut Maier
Encyclopedia
Helmut Maier is a German
mathematician
. Specializing in number theory
, he has made significant progress in the study of the twin prime conjecture. He proved Maier's theorem
.
Maier received his Ph.D.
in 1981 from the University of Minnesota
, with a dissertation on the application of sieve theory
. He is currently a professor at the University of Ulm
.
His Erdős number
is 1.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
. Specializing in number theory
Number theory
Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...
, he has made significant progress in the study of the twin prime conjecture. He proved Maier's theorem
Maier's theorem
In number theory, Maier's theorem is a theorem about the numbers of primes in short intervals for which the Cramér's probabilistic model of primes gives the wrong answer.It states that if π is the prime counting function and λ is greater than 1 then...
.
Maier received his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in 1981 from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
, with a dissertation on the application of sieve theory
Sieve theory
Sieve theory is a set of general techniques in number theory, designed to count, or more realistically to estimate the size of, sifted sets of integers. The primordial example of a sifted set is the set of prime numbers up to some prescribed limit X. Correspondingly, the primordial example of a...
. He is currently a professor at the University of Ulm
University of Ulm
The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...
.
His Erdős number
Erdos number
The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...
is 1.