Rademacher

Hans Rademacher

Born: 3 April 1892 in Wandsbeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Died: 7 Feb 1969 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA

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Rademacher was a number theorist who studied calculus of variations under Carathéodory and number theory with Landau. He was a colleague of Schmidt and Schur and influenced them.

He is best known for his proof of the asymptotic formula for the growth of the partition function (the number of representations of a number as a sum of natural numbers). This answered questions of Leibniz and Euler and followed results obtained by Hardy and Ramanujan.

Forced to leave Germany in 1933 because of his pacifist views, he spent the rest of his life in the USA.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. M Pinl, Kollegen in einer dunkeln Zeit, Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker vereinigung 71 (1969), 205- . 
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