Matti Jutila

{{short description|Finnish mathematician}}

{{for|the Canadian Olympic wrestler|Matti Jutila (wrestler)}}

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Matti Ilmari Jutila (born 1943) is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Turku.{{cite web|url=https://www.utu.fi/en/university/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/mathematics-and-statistics/research|title=Research of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics|publisher=University of Turku|department=Mathematics|access-date=2020-08-17}} He researches in the field of analytic number theory.

Education and career

Jutila completed a doctorate at the University of Turku in 1970, with a dissertation related to Linnik's constant supervised by {{ill|Kustaa Inkeri|fi}}.{{MathGenealogy|id=20498}}

Jutila's work has repeatedly succeeded in lowering the upper bound for Linnik's constant.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AP2CEGxTkgC&pg=PA22|pages=22–25|contribution=A4 The prime number race|title=Unsolved Problems in Number Theory|volume=1|series=Problem Books in Mathematics|first=Richard|last=Guy|authorlink=Richard K. Guy|edition=3rd|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|year=2004|isbn=9780387208602}} He is the author of a monograph, Lectures on a method in the theory of exponential sums (1987).Reviews of Lectures on a method in the theory of exponential sums: S. W. Graham (1989), {{MR|0910497}}; Ekkehard Krätzel, {{zbl|0671.10031}} He has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 1982.{{citation|url=https://www.acadsci.fi/jasenet/ryhmat-ja-osastot.html|title=Jäsenet ryhmittäin|trans-title=Members by group|publisher=Finnish Academy of Science and Letters|language=Finnish|access-date=2020-08-14}}

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