“(What had happened was that Hardy had received the remark in silence and with a poker face, and I wrote it off as a dud....)”
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John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood 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.
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science · British mathematician (1885–1977) · mathematician · university teacher · also John Edensor Littlewood, John Littlewood, Littlewood
Born 9 June 1885 · Died 6 September 1977 · Q353426
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Portrayed by Michael Lieber and The Man Who Knew Infinity in 2015 portrayed by Toby Jones
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1977· 3 entries
Died 1977-09-06.
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“The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it--would.”
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“The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand; as Littlewood said to me once, they are not clever schoolboys or "scholarship candidates", but "Fellows of another college.”
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Senior Berwick Prize (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1958).
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1943· 1 entry
Won Sylvester Medal (1943).
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1941· 1 entry
When he (Spencer) was about to get on the boat that would take him home to the United States, Littlewood reminded him: "n, n alpha, n beta
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1938· 1 entry
Won De Morgan Medal (1938).
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1929· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1929).
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1928· 1 entry
Career landmark: Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1928–1950).
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1916· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1916).
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Awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958
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1914· 1 entry
Littlewood published his first result in the field of analytic number theory concerning the error term of the prime-counting function
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1908· 1 entry
Awarded Smith's Prize (1908).
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1906· 2 entries
After completing the second part of the Tripos, he started his research under Ernest Barnes
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Studied at Trinity College (1903–1906).
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1905· 1 entry
As Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer (Mercer had already graduated from the University of Manchester before attending Cambridge)
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1903· 2 entries
Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College
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Studied at St Paul's School (1900–1903).
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1900· 1 entry
To attend St Paul's School in London, studying under Francis Sowerby Macaulay, an influential algebraic geometer
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1892· 1 entry
His father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-06-09.
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