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Remembering Wolfgang Schwarz, His Life and Work

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The essay is the author’s very personal retrospective on the life and work of Wolfgang Schwarz. Besides biographical details of Schwarz’s private life and his professional career, it gives account of his work on multiplicative functions in collaboration with several colleagues.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks the Schwarz family for their great help with photos and data, Jürgen Spilker (Freiburg), Peter Bundschuh (Köln), Karl-Heinz Indlekofer (Paderborn), Jürgen Wolfart (Frankfurt), Jörn Steuding (Würzburg), Christian Elsholtz (Graz), for their memories of Wolfgang Schwarz’s work and life at the universities of Freiburg and Frankfurt, Aleksandar Ivić (Belgrade) for communicating many details, the chairman Thomas Walter and members of the Schachclub Erlangen 48∕88 for submitting archive-data, and Karl Dilcher (Halifax) and Friedemann Tuttas (Wiesbaden) for thoroughly proofreading the manuscript and valuable suggestions.

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Lucht, L.G. (2016). Remembering Wolfgang Schwarz, His Life and Work. In: Sander, J., Steuding, J., Steuding, R. (eds) From Arithmetic to Zeta-Functions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28203-9_16

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