The Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the

School of Mathematics, University of Manchester The Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest unified mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with over 90 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 students per year (including students ...

, England. The chair was founded by an endowment of £3,600 from one John Richardson, in 1890. The endowment was originally used to support the Richardson Lectureship in Mathematics. One holder of the Richardson Lectureship was

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 Ramanu ...

(1907-1910). The position lapsed in 1918, but was resurrected as a lectureship in Pure Mathematics between 1935 and 1944. There was then a further hiatus until the establishment of the Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics in 1998. The current holder (since 1998) is

Nicholas Higham Nicholas John Higham FRS (born 25 December 1961 in Salford) is a British numerical analyst. He is Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manches ...

.Staff profile for Nicholas Higham
Univ. of Manchester, retrieved 2014-06-27. A complete list of Richardson Lecturers and Professors is as follows: *F. T. Swanwick (1891-1907) Lecturer in Mathematics *

J. E. Littlewood John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to mathematical analysis, analysis, number theory, and differential equations, and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. H ...

(1907-1910) Lecturer in Mathematics *H. R. Hasse (1910-1912) Lecturer in Mathematics *W. D. Evans (1912-1918) Lecturer in Mathematics *W. N. Bailey (1935-1944) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics * N. J. Higham (1998- ) Professor of Applied Mathematics The School of Mathematics has three other endowed chairs, the others being the Beyer Chair, the

Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. History In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College (as th ...

and the

Sir Horace Lamb Chair The Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest unified mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with over 90 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 students per year (including students ...

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