Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau was a German Jewish mathematician and author of over 250 papers on number theory. Edmund Landau was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family. His father was Leopold Landau, a gynaecologist. His mother was Johanna Jacoby from a well known German banking family. Wikipedia
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