Mathematician:Viggo Brun

Mathematician

Norwegian mathematician best known for his work in number theory.

Nationality

Norwegian

History

• Born: 13 October 1885 in Lier, Hordaland County, Norway
• Died: 15 August 1978 in Drøbak, Akershus County, Norway

Theorems and Definitions

• Brun's Constant
• Brun Sieve
• Brun's Theorem
• Brun-Titchmarsh Theorem (with Edward Charles Titchmarsh)

Results named for Viggo Brun can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Viggo Brun can be found here.

Publications

• 1915: Über das Goldbachsche Gesetz und die Anzahl der Primzahlpaare (Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab Vol. B34, no. 8)

• 1919: La série 1/5+1/7+1/11+1/13+1/17+1/19+1/29+1/31+1/41+1/43+1/59+1/61+..., où les dénominateurs sont nombres premiers jumeaux est convergente ou finie (Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques Vol. 43: pp. 100 – 104)

• 1919: La série 1/5+1/7+1/11+1/13+1/17+1/19+1/29+1/31+1/41+1/43+1/59+1/61+..., où les dénominateurs sont nombres premiers jumeaux est convergente ou finie (part 2) (Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques Vol. 43: pp. 124 – 128)

• 1920 Le crible de Eratosthène et le théorème de Goldbach

• 1941: Quadrature of the circle

• 1942: The study of the prime numbers from antiquity to our time

• 1950: Music and ternary continued fractions

• 1951: Wallis's and Brouncker's formulas for $\pi$

• 1953: Niels Henrik Abel

• 1953: The manuscript of Abel's Paris treatise found

• 1958: A letter by Niels Henrick Abel from his youth (with Borge Jessen)

• 1961: Music and Euclidean algorithms

• 1962: The Art of Calculating in Old Norway until the Time of Abel

• 1964: All is Number, a History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Viggo Brun": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive