Edward Collingwood

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Sir Edward Collingwood
DL
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Aberystwyth University
Durham University
University of Paris
Thesis Contributions to the Theory of Integral Functions[2]  (1929)
Academic advisorsJohn Edensor Littlewood[2]

Sir Edward Foyle Collingwood

Northumbrian family, the son of Col. Cuthbert Collingwood of the Lancashire Fusiliers, whose family seat was at Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, Northumberland. His great grandfather was a brother of Admiral Lord Collingwood.[2][3][4]

Life

Collingwood was born at his family home, Lilburn Tower, near Wooler in Northumberland, the son of Col. Cuthbert George Collingwood and his wife, Dorothy Fawcett.[5]

Collingwood was educated at the

dreadnought battleship HMS Collingwood but his naval career was cut short during World War I
when in 1916 he was invalided out of the Navy following an accidental injury.

In 1918 he enrolled to study mathematics at

Rouse Ball travelling scholarship in 1925 he spent a year at the University of Paris
.

Collingwood returned to Cambridge and was in 1929 awarded a doctorate for a thesis entitled Contributions to the theory of integral functions.

Deputy Lieutenant
of his home county.

During

CBE
.

Collingwood returned to mathematics after the war and continued his interest in meromorphic function and in 1949 published his research on the theory of cluster sets.

Awards and honours

Collingwood was elected a fellow of the

Medical Research Council
.

He was knighted in 1962.[3]

Family

Collingwood never married.[6]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 73059823
    .
  2. ^ a b c d Edward Collingwood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Collingwood", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32502. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "Microsoft Word - oldfells_list_jun06.doc" (PDF). Royalsoced.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  6. doi:10.1112/blms/4.1.55
    . [p. 57]: "The fact that he held no paid post for most of his life, and that he was unmarried, enabled him to know a large number of people from many different circles which do not usually intersect."
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