Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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Professor Ted Titchmarsh
Born
Edward Charles Titchmarsh

(1899-06-01)1 June 1899
Senior Berwick Prize (1956)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Academic advisorsG. H. Hardy[2]
Doctoral studentsLionel 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

Titchmarsh was educated at

King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford
, where he began his studies in October 1917.

Career

Titchmarsh was known for work in

Riemann zeta-function was reissued in an 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

Publications

  • 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