Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Professor Ted Titchmarsh | |
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| Born | Edward Charles Titchmarsh 1 June 1899 |
| Died | 18 January 1963 (aged 63) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Known for | Brun–Titchmarsh theorem Titchmarsh convolution theorem Titchmarsh theorem (on the Hilbert transform) Titchmarsh–Kodaira formula |
| Awards | De Morgan Medal (1953) Sylvester Medal (1955) Senior Berwick Prize (1956) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Academic advisors | G. H. Hardy[2] |
| Doctoral students | Lionel Cooper John Bryce McLeod[2] Frederick Valentine Atkinson[2] |
Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (June 1, 1899 – January 18, 1963) was a leading British mathematician.[1][2][3]
Education
[edit]Titchmarsh was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.
Career
[edit]Titchmarsh was known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He wrote several classic books in these areas; his book on the Riemann zeta-function was reissued in a 1986 edition edited by Roger Heath-Brown.
Titchmarsh was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963. He was a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in 1954 in Amsterdam.
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1935-1947.[4]
Awards
[edit]- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931[1]
- De Morgan Medal, 1953
- Sylvester Medal, 1955
- Berwick Prize winner, 1956
Publications
[edit]- The Zeta-Function of Riemann (1930);
- Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (1937)[5] 2nd. edition(1939) 2nd. edition (1948);
- The Theory of Functions (1932);[6]
- Mathematics for the General Reader (1948);
- The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (1951);[7] 2nd edition, revised by D. R. Heath-Brown (1986)
- Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part I (1946)[8] 2nd. edition (1962);
- Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part II (1958);[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cartwright, M. L. (1964). "Edward Charles Titchmarsh 1899-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 305–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0018.
- ^ a b c d Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Charles Titchmarsh", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
- ^ Tamarkin, J. D. (1938). "Review: Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (11): 764–765. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1938-06876-0.
- ^ Chittenden, E. W. (1933). "Review: The Theory of Functions by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (9): 650–651. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05690-2.
- ^ Levinson, N. (1952). "Review: The theory of the Riemann zeta-function by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (3): 401–403. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09592-6.
- ^ Trjitzinsky, W. J. (1948). "Review: Eigenfunction expansions associated with second-order differential equations by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (5): 485–487. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1948-09001-2.
- ^ Hartman, Philip (1959). "Review: Eigenfunction expansions associated with second-order differential equations, Part 2 by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 65 (3): 151–154. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1959-10307-4.
Categories:
- 1899 births
- 1963 deaths
- People from Newbury, Berkshire
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- British number theorists
- Mathematical analysts
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- People educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield
- Savilian Professors of Geometry
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Governors of Abingdon School