1950 Fields Medal (2)

Reason for Award

Developed generalizations of thesieve methodsofViggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of theRiemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of theprime number theorem(withP. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitraryarithmetic progression.

Laureates

Atle Selberg,

Norway Norway

Other works in the same year

Developed the theory ofdistributions, a new notion of generalized function motivated by theDirac delta-functionoftheoretical physics.

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