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Littlewood
Littlewood is a surname, and may refer to: * Alison Littlewood, British author * Angela Littlewood (born 1949), English shot putter * Barclay Littlewood (born 1978), British entrepreneur * Chic Littlewood (1930–2015), New Zealand actor * Clayton Littlewood (born 1963), English author * David Littlewood (born 1955), English cricketer * Dominic Littlewood (born 1965), British television presenter and entrepreneur * Dudley E. Littlewood (1903–1979), British mathematician * France Littlewood (1863–1941), British socialist * George Littlewood Sr. (1857–1928), English cricketer * George Littlewood Jr. (1882–1917), English cricketer * Harry Littlewood (1921–2003), English actor * Herbert Littlewood (1858–1925), English cricketer * Ivan Littlewood (1902–1951), New Zealand rugby player * Jesse Littlewood (1878–1942), English cricketer * Jessica Littlewood, Canadian politician * Joan Littlewood (1914–2002), British actress and theatre director * John Edensor Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) 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. Biography Littlewood was born on 9 June 1885 in Rochester, Kent, the eldest son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland). In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there. Littlewood returned to Britain in 1900 to attend St Paul's School in London, studying under Francis Sowerby Macaulay, an influential algebraic geometer. In 1903, Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College. He spent his first two years preparing for the Tripos examinations which qualify undergraduates for a bachelor's degree where he emerged in 1905 as Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer (Mercer had already ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |