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Date: 26 Apr 2004 00:11:56
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski
Subject: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)
Here is a quote about the great mathematician,
Edmund Landau, from:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Landau.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/298lt

"Landau was always interested in mathematical
puzzles and even before he received his
doctorate he had published two books on
mathematical problems in chess."

Does anybody know more about this?

Regards,

Wlod


 
Date: 26 Apr 2004 12:18:09
From: Miriling
Subject: Re: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)
>Subject: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)

>On 26 April 2004 [email protected] (Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) wrote in
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>Here is a quote about the great mathematician,
>Edmund Landau, from:
>
>http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Landau.html
>
>or
>
>http://tinyurl.com/298lt
>
> "Landau was always interested in mathematical
> puzzles and even before he received his
> doctorate he had published two books on
> mathematical problems in chess."
>
>Does anybody know more about this?
>
>Regards,
>
> Wlod
>
>
Here are a couple of publications that should have information about Edmund
Georg Hermann Landau and his books on mathematical problems in chess:

Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1938, page 73
Poggendorfs Biographisch-Literarisches Handworterbuch, volume IV, page 834

George Mirijanian
>
>
>




 
Date: 26 Apr 2004 16:14:07
From: Anders Thulin
Subject: Re: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)


Wlodzimierz Holsztynski wrote:

> "Landau was always interested in mathematical
> puzzles and even before he received his
> doctorate he had published two books on
> mathematical problems in chess."
>
> Does anybody know more about this?

Don't know when he got his doctorate, but one fairly well-known
book is '�ber preisverteilung bei spielturnieren' published in 1914.

His collected works have been published -- might be easier to
try those for any other chess-related works.

--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath



  
Date: 26 Apr 2004 16:42:51
From: Miriling
Subject: Re: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)
>Subject: Re: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)

>On 26 April 2004 Anders Thulin [email protected] replied in
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>
> Don't know when he got his doctorate, but one fairly well-known
>book is '�ber preisverteilung bei spielturnieren' published in 1914.

-snipped-
>--
>Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath
>
>
>
>Landau received his doctorate in 1899 from the University of Berlin.
>
>George Mirijanian
>




  
Date: 28 Apr 2004 21:29:36
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski
Subject: Re: Edmund Landau (14 Feb 1877 -- 19 Feb 1938)
Anders Thulin <[email protected] >
wrote in message news:
<[email protected] >...

> Don't know when he got his doctorate,

But I've provided a link! :-) At the very beginning:

"Edmund Landau attended the French Lyc�e in Berlin,
graduating at the age of 16 which is two years
earlier than was normal. He then studied mathematics
at the University of Berlin. His doctoral work there
was supervised by Frobenius and Landau received his
doctorate in 1899 for a work on number theory."

> but one fairly well-known book is
> '�ber preisverteilung bei spielturnieren'
> published in 1914.
>
> His collected works have been published
> -- might be easier to try those for any other
> chess-related works.

Thank you, and everybody in this thread,
for the information.

Regards,

Wlod