Essays in Analytic Number Theory In Honor of Helmut Maier’s 70th Birthday

John Friedlander is University Professor Emeritus (Mathematics) at the University of Toronto. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T. in 1974–76 and has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto since 1977, where he served as Chair of Mathematics during 1987–91. He has also spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been bestowed with the Jeffery–Williams Prize, the CRM-Fields Prize and (joint with H. Iwaniec) the Joseph L. Doob Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada as well as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the Canadian Mathematical Society and the Fields Institute. 

Carl Pomerance is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mathematics of Dartmouth College. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least seven distinct prime factors. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming a full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years and then became a Professor at Dartmouth College. He has been bestowed with several awards, including the Chauvenet Prize in 1985, the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics in 1997, and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He also became the John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics in the same year.

Michael Th. Rassias is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Engineering Sciences of the Hellenic Military Academy. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from ETH-Zürich in 2014. For the period 2015-2021 he was a researcher with teaching duties at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Zürich and for the period 2015-2023, he was a visiting researcher at the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Additionally, during the academic year 2014–2015, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University and the Department of Mathematics of ETH-Zürich, conducting research at Princeton. While at Princeton, he prepared with John F. Nash, Jr. (Nobel Prize, 1994 and Abel Prize, 2015) the volume Open Problems in Mathematics , Springer, 2016. He has received several awards in mathematical problem-solving competitions, including a Silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad of 2003 in Tokyo.