Hans Rademacher
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Hans Adolph Rademacher (3 April 1892, Wandsbeck, now Hamburg-Wandsbek – 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. He emigrated from Europe in 1934. Constantin Carathéodory supervised his dissertation.
After leaving Germany, he moved to Philadelphia and worked at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 1962. His distinguished scope of work includes analytic number theory, mathematical genetics, the theory of functions of a real variable, and quantum theory. Most notably, he developed the theory of Dedekind sums.
With his retirement from the University of Pennsylvania, a group of mathematicians provided the seed funding for The Hans A. Rademacher Instructorships at the Ivy League institution, and honored him with an honorary degree as Doctor of Science. He was known for his kindness to colleagues and students.
See also
Rademacher function, Rademacher sum, Rademacher-Kolmogorov theorem, Rademacher-Menchov theorem, Rademacher's series, Rademacher distributionExternal link
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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