Atle Selberg

Awards

1. 1950

   Fields Medal

   Math

   Developed generalizations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of the Riemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of the prime number theorem (with P. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitrary arithmetic progression.

2. 1986

   Wolf Prize — Mathematics

   Math

   for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.