Frederick Valentine Atkinson
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Frederick Valentine Atkinson | |
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Born | Makdougall-Brisbane Prize | 25 January 1916
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Oxford University of Ibadan University of Toronto |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Charles Titchmarsh |
Doctoral students |
Frederick Valentine "Derick" Atkinson (25 January 1916 – 13 November 2002) was a British mathematician, formerly of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he spent most of his career. Atkinson's theorem and Atkinson–Wilcox theorem are named after him. His PhD advisor at Oxford was Edward Charles Titchmarsh.
Early life and education
The following synopsis is condensed (with permission) from Mingarelli's tribute to Atkinson.[1] He attended St Paul's School, London from 1929 to 1934. The High Master of St. Paul's once wrote of Atkinson: "Extremely promising: He should make a brilliant mathematician"!
Atkinson attended The Queen's College, Oxford in 1934 with a scholarship. During his stay at Queen's, he was secretary of the Chinese Student Society, and a member of the Indian Student Society.
Auto-didactic when it came to languages, he taught himself and became fluent in Latin, Ancient Greek, Urdu, German, Hungarian, and Russian with some proficiency in Spanish, Italian, and French. His dissertation at
Career
His first academic appointment was at
Honours
His honors include: Fellow of the
Bibliography
Atkinson was the author of 3 books (one of them posthumous with Angelo B. Mingarelli) and more than 130 papers. He is best remembered for his classic text "Discrete and Continuous Boundary Problems" (1964), and his seminal contributions to differential equations as outlined in the margin.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frederick Valentine Atkinson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Frederick (Derick) Valentine Atkinson by Angelo B. Mingarelli
- A glimpse into the life and times of F.V. Atkinson by Angelo B. Mingarelli
References
- ^ Mingarelli, Angelo B. "Frederick (Derick) Valentine Atkinso" (PDF). .rse.org.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2021.