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John Edensor Littlewood FRS (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.
John Edensor Littlewood. Quick Info. Born. 9 June 1885. Rochester, Kent, England. Died. 6 September 1977. Cambridge, England. Summary. Littlewood collaborated with G H Hardy, working on the theory of series, the Riemann zeta function, inequalities and the theory of functions. View five larger pictures. Biography.
John Edensor Littlewood. 1885-1977. English mathematician who, in collaboration with G. H. Hardy, produced an acclaimed body of work, including contributions to pure mathematics and the theory of series and functions.
Mar 2, 2019 · A comprehensive account of the life and work of the British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood (1885-1977), who made major contributions to analysis, number theory and combinatorics. The article covers his family background, education, research, teaching, personality and legacy.
- J. C. Burkill
- 1979
After 1900, the principal architect of an English school of mathematical analysis was G. H. Hardy (1877-1947). In strengthening the foundations and building on them he found a partner in the subject of this memoir, J. E. Littlewood (1885-1977).
Cambridge, England, 6 September 1977) mathematics. Littlewood was the eldest son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Ackland. His father, a graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge, took his family to South Africa in 1892 when he became headmaster of a school at Wynberg, near Cape Town.
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PROFESSOR John Edensor Littlewood, FRS, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, died on 6 September, 1977, at the age of 92. He was the son of Edward Thornton...
