Heini Halberstam

Background

Halberstam, Heini was born on September 11, 1926 in Most, Czechoslovakia. Came to England, 1939, naturalized, 1998. Son of Michael and Judith (Honig) Halberstam.

Education

Bachelor of Science with honours, University College. Bachelor of Science with honours, London University, 1946. Master of Science, London University, 1948.

Doctor of Philosophy, London University, 1952.

Career

He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. After Adolf Hitler"s annexation of the Sudetenland, he and his mother moved to Prague. At the age of twelve, as the Nazi occupation progressed, he was one of the 669 children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the Kindertransport, a train that allowed those children to leave Nazi-occupied territory.

He was sent to England, where he lived during World World War World War II He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1952, from University College, London, under supervision of Theodor Estermann.

From 1962 until 1964, Halberstam was Erasmus Smith"s Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin). From 1964 until 1980, Halberstam was a Professor of Mathematics at Nottingham University.

In 1980, he took up a position at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and he became an Emeritus Professor at UIUC in 1996. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He is known also for books, with Klaus Roth on combinatorial number theory, and with H. East. Richert on sieve theory.

Achievements

• Heini Halberstam has been listed as a noteworthy mathematics professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method: With Procedures for Computing Sieve Functions (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)

    (As probability and combinatorics have penetrated the fabr...)

  • Sieve Methods By Halberstam, Heini ( Author ) 2011 ) Paperback
  • Sieve Methods SIEVE METHODS by Halberstam, Heini (Author) Sep-14-11 Paperback

Membership

Member London Mathematics Society (vice president 1962-1963, 74-77), American Math Society M C.

Connections

Married Heather M. Peacock, March 11, 1950 (deceased 1971). Children: Naomi Deborah, Judith Marion, Lucy Rebecca, Michael Welsford. Married Doreen Bramley, September 28, 1972.

Father:

Michael Halberstam

Mother:

Judith (Honig) Halberstam

Spouse:

Doreen Bramley

Spouse:

Heather M. Peacock

child:

Judith Marion Halberstam

child:

Naomi Deborah Halberstam

child:

Lucy Rebecca Halberstam

child:

Michael Welsford Halberstam