John Edenzor (Little) Littlewood ( Eng. John Edensor Littlewood ; June 9, 1885 , Rochester , Kent , UK - September 6, 1977 , Cambridge , UK) - English mathematician.
| Littlewood John Idenzor (Identifier) | |
|---|---|
| English John Edensor Littlewood | |
 c. 1918 | |
| Date of Birth | June 9, 1885 |
| Place of Birth | Rochester ( Kent , UK ) |
| Date of death | September 6, 1977 ( 92) |
| Place of death | Cambridge ( UK ) |
| A country | Great Britain |
| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | Cambridge |
| supervisor | Ernest Barnes |
| Famous students | S. Ramanujan |
| Awards and prizes | Royal Medal (1929) Medal de Morgan (1938) Sylvester Medal (1943) Copley Medal (1958) |
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Biography
Littlewood studied at St Paul's School London , one of his teachers was F.S. Macaulay, known for his contribution to the theory of ideals . He later attended Trinity College in Cambridge and was one of the 1905 Senior Wrangler graduates. He became a faculty member (Fellow of Trinity College) in 1908, and, with the exception of three years of teaching at the University of Manchester , his entire career went to Cambridge. Littlewood became a professor of mathematics at this university in 1928 and resigned in 1950.
Littlewood has been a member of the Royal Society since 1916, having received the Royal Medal (Royal Medal, 1929), the Sylvester Medal (Sylvester Medal, 1943), and the Copley Medal (1958). He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943, was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.
The main works of Littlewood himself relate to mathematical analysis and number theory . Even in his youth, he showed that if the Riemann hypothesis is true, then the theorem on the distribution of primes is also true. Also, many of his works belong to the field of mathematics, which later became known as the theory of dynamical systems .
Littlewood co-authored most of the work with G. H. Hardy . They expressed the first and second Hardy-Littlewood hypotheses regarding estimates of the distributions of primes. Littwood proved himself to be a talented teacher, his book "Inequalities" written with Hardy and Poia became classic. He also contributed to popular math.
Of his students, the most famous are S. Ramanujan and P. Swinnerton-Dyer
See also
- Hardy's first hypothesis - Littlewood
- Hardy-Littlewood Second Hypothesis
Books in Russian
- Hardy G.G., Littlewood J.E., Poia G. Inequalities -M .: IL, 1948
- Littlewood J. Mathematical Mix — M.: Science, 1990
Links
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Littlewood, John Edenzor (English) - biography in the MacTutor archive.