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Atle Selberg was born on 14 June, 1917 in Langesund, Norway, is a Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007). Discover Atle Selberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 14 June 1917
Birthday 14 June
Birthplace Langesund, Norway
Date of death 6 August, 2007
Died Place Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Nationality Norway

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His wife is Hedvig Liebermann (m. 1947 - died 1995) Betty Frances ("Mickey") Compton (m. 2003 - 2007)

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1917

Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

1940

For his fundamental accomplishments during the 1940s, Selberg received the 1950 Fields Medal.

1943

He studied at the University of Oslo and completed his PhD in 1943.

During World War II, Selberg worked in isolation due to the German occupation of Norway.

After the war, his accomplishments became known, including a proof that a positive proportion of The Zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the line.

During the war, he fought against the German invasion of Norway, and was imprisoned several times.

After the war, he turned to sieve theory, a previously neglected topic which Selberg's work brought into prominence.

1947

In a 1947 paper he introduced the Selberg sieve, a method well adapted in particular to providing auxiliary upper bounds, and which contributed to Chen's theorem, among other important results.

1948

In 1948 Selberg submitted two papers in Annals of Mathematics in which he proved by elementary means the theorems for primes in arithmetic progression and the density of primes.

This challenged the widely held view of his time that certain theorems are only obtainable with the advanced methods of complex analysis.

Both results were based on his work on the asymptotic formula

where

for primes p. He established this result by elementary means in March 1948, and by July of that year, Selberg and Paul Erdős each obtained elementary proofs of the prime number theorem, both using the asymptotic formula above as a starting point.

Circumstances leading up to the proofs, as well as publication disagreements, led to a bitter dispute between the two mathematicians.

1950

He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.

Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway, the son of teacher Anna Kristina Selberg and mathematician Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg.

Two of his three brothers, Sigmund and Henrik, were also mathematicians.

His other brother, Arne, was a professor of engineering.

While he was still at school he was influenced by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and he found an exact analytical formula for the partition function as suggested by the works of Ramanujan; however, this result was first published by Hans Rademacher.

Selberg moved to the United States and worked as an associate professor at Syracuse University and later settled at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in the 1950s, where he remained until his death.

During the 1950s he worked on introducing spectral theory into number theory, culminating in his development of the Selberg trace formula, the most famous and influential of his results.

In its simplest form, this establishes a duality between the lengths of closed geodesics on a compact Riemann surface and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian, which is analogous to the duality between the prime numbers and The Zeros of the zeta function.

1972

In 1972, he was awarded an honorary degree, doctor philos.

honoris causa, at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, later part of Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

1986

He was awarded the 1986 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

1995

His first wife, Hedvig, died in 1995.

With her, Selberg had two children: Ingrid Selberg (married to playwright Mustapha Matura) and Lars Selberg.

2002

He was also awarded an honorary Abel Prize in 2002, its founding year, before the awarding of the regular prizes began.

Selberg received many distinctions for his work, in addition to the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize and the Gunnerus Medal.

He was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2003

In 2003 Atle Selberg married Betty Frances ("Mickey") Compton (born in 1929).

2007

He died at home in Princeton, New Jersey on 6 August 2007 of heart failure.

Selberg's collected works were published in two volumes.

The first volume contains 41 articles, and the second volume contains three additional articles, in addition to Selberg's lectures on sieves.