Mathematician:Stanley Skewes

Mathematician

South African mathematician, best known for his discovery of the Skewes' number in $1933$.

One of John Edensor Littlewood's students at Cambridge University.

Nationality

South African

History

• Born: 1899
• Died: 1988

Theorems and Definitions

• Skewes' Number

Definitions of concepts named for Stanley Skewes can be found here.

Publications

• 1933: On the difference $\pi \left({x}\right) − \operatorname {Li} \left({x}\right)$ (I) (J. London Math. Soc. Vol. 8, no. 4: pp. 277 – 283)

• 1955: On the difference $\pi \left({x}\right) − \operatorname {Li} \left({x}\right)$ (II) (Proc. London Math. Soc. Ser. 3 Vol. 5, no. 17: pp. 48 – 70)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Stanley Skewes": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Skewes' number