Mathematician - Edmund Landau

Edmund Georg Hermann Landau was born in Berlin on February 14, 1877.his parents were the respected Berlin gynaecologist Leopold Landau and his wife Johanna, who came from the Jacoby banking family.his talent for mathematics was already evident at school.he attended the Französiche Gymnasium in Berlin, passed his Abitur exams at the age of 16 and then began studying mathematics at the University of Berlin.in 1899 he completed his doctorate under Ferdinand Georg Frobenius on a number theory topic (New proof of the equation ∑ μ(n)/n = 0'). He completed his doctorate under Ferdinand Georg Frobenius on a number theory topic (New proof of the equation ∑ μ(n)/n = 0'; 1899) and habilitated at the University of Berlin in 1901 with a thesis on a topic from analytical number theory.He taught there as a private lecturer until 1908.1909 In 1909 he accepted a call to Göttingen to succeed Hermann Minkowski and to lecture there on an equal footing with his high-ranking colleagues David Hilbert and Felix Klein.1912 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge.1914 he became a full member (from 1933 a temporary member) of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.1921 In the same year, he was also elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. In 1924 he became an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society and a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.He was also a corresponding member of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1924 and an honorary member from 1932.Edmund Landau was given early retirement in 1934 as a result of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.Edmund Landau married Marianne Ehrlich, the daughter of the later Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich, in 1905. The couple had three children -
Charlotte, Susanne and Matthias.

He died in Berlin on February 19, 1938.