Andrzej Schinzel

Andrzej Schinzel ( born April 5, 1937 in Sandomierz in Poland) is a Polish mathematician who deals with number theory.

Schinzel his doctorate in 1960 at the University of Warsaw. He is at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Schinzel published over 200 works and dealt with many areas of number theory ( analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, diophantine equations, geometry of numbers ), but especially with arithmetic and algebraic aspects of polynomials. Schinzel is known for a presumption that H conjecture of Schinzel ( 1958, in a work with Waclaw Sierpinski ). It says that irreducible integer polynomials whose product Q has no fixed prime number p as a divisor ( ie Q / p is again an integer polynomial ), for infinitely many integer values ​​of the variable x represent the same primes.

He was for 40 years editor of Acta Arithmetica. His doctoral counts Henryk Iwaniec. In 1992 he was awarded the Stefan Banach Medal. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Reducibility of polynomials ) and in Stockholm in 1962 ( On the arithmetic of polynomials and some related problems ).

Writings

• Henryk Iwaniec, Wladyslaw Narkiewicz, Jerzy Urbanowicz (Editor): Andrzej Schinzel - Selecta, European Math.Society 2007, two volumes.