Mertens

Franz Mertens

Born: 20 March 1840 in Schroda, Posen, Prussia (now Sroda, Poland)
Died: 5 March 1927 in Vienna, Austria 

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Mertens studied at Berlin with Kronecker and Kummer. In 1865 he obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on potential theory.

He worked first in Cracow, then in Graz, then in 1894 in Vienna.

Mertens was a number theorist who is best remembered for his elementary proof of the Dirichlet theorem which appears in most modern textbooks. He worked on analytic number theory and algebra.

References:

  1. H Hornich, Franz Mertens, Osterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 VI (Vienna, 1975), 235. 
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