Mathematician:David Gawen Champernowne

Mathematician
English economist and mathematician, famous for proving that the number now known as the Champernowne constant is normal.

A sometime colleague and lifelong friend of.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 9 July 1912 in Oxford, England
 * 1931: Won a scholarship to study mathematics at King's College, Cambridge
 * Autumn 1931: Matriculated
 * 1936: Appointed assistant lecturer at London School of Economics
 * 1938: University lecturer in statistics at Cambridge
 * 1940: Made a temporary Civil Servant, assigned to statistical section of Prime Minister's office as assistant to
 * 1945: Appointed as Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
 * 1945: Made director of Oxford University Institute of Statistics
 * 1948: Appointed as Professor of Statistics at Oxford
 * 1959: Return to Cambridge as Reader in Economics
 * 1970: Appointed to Personal Professorship at Cambridge
 * 1970: Elected to the British Academy
 * 1978: Retired
 * 1995: Moved to Budleigh Salterton
 * Died: 19 August 2000 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Champernowne Constant (also known as Mahler's Number for )
 * Champernowne Distribution

Publications

 * 1969: Uncertainty and Estimation in Economics (3 volumes)
 * 1973: The Distribution of Income between Persons
 * 1998: Economic Inequality and Income Distribution (with )
 * 1969: Uncertainty and Estimation in Economics (3 volumes)
 * 1973: The Distribution of Income between Persons
 * 1998: Economic Inequality and Income Distribution (with )