Heini Halberstam

Heini Halberstam (born 11 September 1926 in Brux, Czechoslovakia, † January 25, 2014 in Champaign, Illinois ) was a British mathematician who worked on analytic number theory.

Heini Halberstam fled as a Jew from the Nazis with a " Kindertransport " to England, where he in 1946 at University College London earned his bachelor's and 1948 his master's degree and in 1952 with Theodor Estermann obtained his doctorate with a thesis from the vicinity of the Waring problem. From 1946 he was a lecturer at the University of Essex, from 1957 Reader at Royal Holloway College, University of London and from 1962 Erasmus Smith Professor at Trinity College in Dublin. From 1964 he was professor at the University of Nottingham (several times as chairman of the mathematics faculty ) and from 1980 at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign ( UIUC ) as chairman of the mathematics faculty, where he was Professor Emeritus since 1996. In 1966 he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and 1973 at the Tel Aviv University.

Halberstam wrote with Richert a standard work on sieve methods. He was also in mathematics pedagogy active ( as founding member of the Shell Centre for Mathematics Education in Nottingham ) and was co-editor of the collected works of Harold Davenport ( with whom he also published ), John Edensor Littlewood, William Rowan Hamilton and Loo - Keng Hua. He was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He was married to Doreen Bramley since 1972 and had four children with her.

Writings

• With Hans- Egon Richert: Sieve Methods. Academic Press 1974
• Klaus Friedrich Roth: Sequences. Oxford 1966, Springer 1983
• Harold Diamond and William Galway: A higher dimensional sieve method. Cambridge University Press 2008