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Adolf Piltz (8 December 1855 – 1940) was a German
Adolf Piltz (8 December 1855 – 1940) was a German mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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who contributed to number theory. Piltz was arguably the first to formulate a generalized Riemann hypothesis
The Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important conjectures in mathematics. It is a statement about the zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Various geometrical and arithmetical objects can be described by so-called global ''L''-functions, whic ...
, in 1884.Davenport, p. 124.
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* Davenport, Harold. ''Multiplicative number theory''. Third edition. Revised and with a preface by Hugh L. Montgomery. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 74. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. xiv+177 pp. .Further reading
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* 1855 births 1940 deaths 19th-century German mathematicians Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 20th-century German mathematicians {{Germany-mathematician-stub