Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (June 1, 1899 – January 18, 1963) was a leading British mathematician.[1][2][3]
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] |
Education
editTitchmarsh was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.
Career
editTitchmarsh 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.