Franz Carl Joseph Mertens (1840 - 1927)

* 20 March 1840, † 5 March 1927

Franz Carl Joseph Mertens was born on 20 March 1840 in Schroda, Posen, Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland). Franz Mertens was a Polish-born mathematician who made contributions to a wide variety of areas. He formulated the Mertens conjecture which (had it been true) would have implied the Riemann Hypothesis. Franz Carl Joseph Mertens died on 5 March 1927 in Vienna, Austria.