Mathematician:John Edensor Littlewood

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Mathematician

British mathematician best known for his collaborations with Godfrey Harold Hardy.


Nationality

British


History

  • Born: 9 June 1885, Rochester, Kent, England
  • Died: 6 Sept 1977, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for John Edensor Littlewood can be found here.


Publications

  • 1914: Sur la distribution des nombres premiers (C.R. Acad. Sci. Vol. 158: pp. 1869 – 1872)
  • 1921: The zeros of Riemann's zeta-function on the critical line (Math. Z. Vol. 10: pp. 3 – 4) (with G.H. Hardy)
  • 1923: Some problems of 'Partitio numerorum'; III: On the expression of a number as a sum of primes (Acta Math. Vol. 44: pp. 1 – 70) (with G.H. Hardy)
  • 1963: A Mathematician's Miscellany


Sources