Archibald Read Richardson
FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
known for his work in
algebra
Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics.
Elementary ...
.
Career
Richardson collaborated with
Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced
the immanant of a matrix, studied
Schur functions and developed the
Littlewood–Richardson rule In mathematics, the Littlewood–Richardson rule is a combinatorial description of the coefficients that arise when decomposing a product of two Schur functions as a linear combination of other Schur functions. These coefficients are natural number ...
for their multiplication.
Awards and honours
Richardson was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...
on 21 March 1946.
See also
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Quasideterminant
References
1881 births
1954 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
Algebraists
Fellows of the Royal Society
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