Ludvig Oppermann

Ludvig Henrik Ferdinand Oppermann (September 7, 1817 – August 17, 1883) was a Danish mathematician and philologist who formulated Oppermann's conjecture on the distribution of prime numbers.

Publications From : 1857: Bidrag til Landmaalingens Theori. (Contributions to the theory of geodesy.) Tidsskr. Krigsvaxsen, 332–44. 1863: Under the signature "En Dilettant": En Foresp0rgsel. (A request.) Tidsskr. Math. (1) 5, p. 16. Under the signature "En Dilettant": Minimumsproblemer. (Minimum problems.) Tidsskr. Math. (1) 5, 17–26. 1866: Om Livsforsikringer og Livrenter. (On life insurance and pensions.) Copenhagen, 24 pp. 1869: Notes on Newton's formulae for interpolation. The Assurance Mag. 15, 145-8 and 177–9. 1870: On Brigg's formula for interpolation. The Assurance Mag. 15, 312. On the graduation of life tables, with special application to the rate of mortality in infancy and childhood. The Assurance Rec., Febr. 11. 1871: Om Kvadratur. (On quadrature.) Tidsskr. Math. (3) 1 11–27. 1872: Elementaere Darstellung, der numerischen Summation und Quadratur. Copenhagen, 21 pp. Zur Begriindungder allgemeinenFehlertheorie(Methode der kleinsten Quadraten). Hamburg, 20 pp.