J.E. Littlewood
| John Edensor Littlewood | |
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John E. Littlewood in 1907
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| Born |
9 June 1885 Rochester, Kent, England |
| Died | 6 September 1977 (aged 92) Cambridge, England |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest William Barnes |
| Doctoral students |
A. O. L. Atkin Sarvadaman Chowla Harold Davenport Srinivasa Ramanujan Stanley Skewes Donald C. Spencer Albert Ingham |
| Known for | Mathematical analysis |
| Notable awards |
Smith's Prize (1908) Royal Medal (1929) De Morgan Medal (1938) Sylvester Medal (1943) Copley Medal (1958) Senior Berwick Prize (1960) |
John Edensor Littlewood FRS LLD (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician, best known for his achievements in analysis, number theory, and differential equations and for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy.
Littlewood was born on 1885 in Rochester, Kent, the eldest son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud. In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town in South Africa, taking his family there. Littlewood returned to England in 1900 to attend St Paul's School in London, studying under Francis Sowerby Macaulay, an influential algebraic geometer.
In 1903, Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College. He spent his first two years preparing for the Tripos examinations which qualify undergraduates for a bachelor's degree. In 1906, after completing the last part of the Tripos (where he emerged as Senior Wrangler, the person who obtains the highest mark in the Tripos), he started his research under Ernest Barnes. One of the problems that Barnes suggested to Littlewood was to prove the Riemann hypothesis, an assignment at which he did not succeed. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1908 and, apart from three years as Richardson Lecturer in the University of Manchester, the balance of his career was spent at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943 and the Copley Medal in 1958. He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943, and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.
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