Aurel Wintner

Aurel Friedrich Wintner was a mathematician, born on 8 April 1903 and died on 15 January 1958, noted for research in mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability theory, and counted among the founders of probabilistic number theory. He received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1928 under the guidance of Leon Lichtenstein and later taught at Johns Hopkins University. He was a nephew of the astronomer Samuel Oppenheim and the son-in-law of the mathematician Otto Holder. His books include Spektraltheorie der unendlichen Matrizen of 1929, The Analytical Foundations of Celestial Mechanics of 1941, which Dover reprinted in 2014, The Theory of Measure in Arithmetical Semi-Groups of 1944 and The Fourier Transforms of Probability Distributions of 1947.