Theodor Estermann
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Theodor Estermann was a mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

, working in the field of analytic number theory
Analytic number theory
In mathematics, analytic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses methods from mathematical analysis to solve problems about the integers. It is often said to have begun with Dirichlet's introduction of Dirichlet L-functions to give the first proof of Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic...

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He was born in Neubrandenburg
Neubrandenburg
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, Germany
Germany
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. His doctorate, completed in 1925, was supervised by Hans Rademacher
Hans Rademacher
Hans Adolph Rademacher was a German mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.-Biography:...

. Heini Halberstam
Heini Halberstam
Heini Halberstam is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture is named....

, Klaus Roth
Klaus Roth
Klaus Friedrich Roth is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. He was born in Breslau, Prussia, but raised and educated in the UK. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945...

 and Robert Charles Vaughan were Ph.D. students of his.

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