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John Edensor Littlewood
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English mathematician (1885–1977)
Key facts
- Born
- John Edensor Littlewood , ( 1885-06-09 ) 9 June 1885, Rochester , Kent , England
- Died
- 6 September 1977 (1977-09-06) (aged 92), Cambridge , England
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Known for
- Mathematical analysis
- Awards
- Smith's Prize (1908) Royal Medal (1929) De Morgan Medal (1938) Sylvester Medal (1943) Copley Medal (1958) Senior Berwick Prize (1960)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge
- Doctoral advisor
- Ernest Barnes
- Doctoral students
- A. O. L. Atkin Sarvadaman Chowla Harold Davenport Srinivasa Ramanujan Stanley Skewes Donald C. Spencer Albert Ingham
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Award
- Smith's Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- Ernest Barnes
- Student of
- Francis Sowerby Macaulay
- Field of work
- calculus
- Image
- John Edensor Littlewood.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1885-06-09
- date of death
- 1977-09-06
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- John Edensor Littlewood
- student
- Raymond Paley
- different from
- Dudley E. Littlewood
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- partner in business or sport
- G.H. Hardy
- interested in
- dynamical system
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Encyclopedic overview
John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.
Biography
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