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, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
known for his work in
algebra
Algebra () is one of the areas of mathematics, 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 mathem ...
.
Career
Richardson collaborated with
Dudley E. Littlewood
Dudley Ernest Littlewood (7 September 1903, London –
6 October 1979, Llandudno) was a British mathematician known for his work in group representation theory.
He read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his tutor was John Ed ...
on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced
the immanant of a matrix
In mathematics, the immanant of a matrix was defined by Dudley E. Littlewood and Archibald Read Richardson as a generalisation of the concepts of determinant and permanent.
Let \lambda=(\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\ldots) be a partition of an integer ...
, 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 numbe ...
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 mathematic ...
on 21 March 1946.
See also
*
Quasideterminant
References
1881 births
1954 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
Algebraists
Fellows of the Royal Society
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