Arnold Walfisz

Arnold Walfisz ( born July 2, 1892 in Warsaw, † 29 May 1962 Tbilisi ) was a Polish mathematician. His focus was on number theory and algebra.

Life

After finishing high school in Warsaw, he studied from 1909 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1921, in Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen, where he. Received his doctorate in 1921 with Edmund Landau ( About the summatorischen functions of some Dirichlet series, 56 pages) From 1922 to 1927 Walfisz lived in Wiesbaden. In 1927 he returned to Warsaw, was a research assistant at the university ( from the habilitation in 1930 as a lecturer ) and worked, as this activity was unpaid, for the insurance company "Europe". In 1935 he founded with Salomon Lubelski the journal Acta Arithmetica. In 1936 he went to Tbilisi and was professor of mathematics at the university there. Walfisz is the author of about 100 mathematical works, including the books listed under " works". He has also published two books of writings by Edmund Landau.

Works

• The Pellsche equation ( Russian original: Уравнение Пелля ), Tbilisi, 1952
• Grid points in multidimensional balls, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Monografi Matematyczne, vol. 33 Warszawa, 1957, online
• Weyl exponential sums in modern number theory, German VEB Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1963
• Books by and about Arnold Walfisz in the German National Library