Bertram Martin Wilson
Bertram Martin Wilson (born November 14, 1896 in London , † March 18, 1935 ) was a British mathematician.
Wilson was the son of a clergyman, went to school in Birmingham and studied from 1916 on a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge University . In 1919 he graduated from the Tripos and was from 1920 lecturer at the University of Liverpool under John Charles Burkill and Edward Charles Titchmarsh . From 1933 he was a professor at University College in Dundee as the successor to John Edward Aloysius Steggall (1855-1935). In 1935 he died after a brief illness.
Initially he dealt with number theory, integral equations and orthogonal functions. Later he dedicated himself to the publication of the works of S. Ramanujan . In 1927 he was one of the editors of his Collected Papers and from 1929 he worked on an annotated edition of Ramanujan's notebooks with George Neville Watson . The project came to a standstill after his untimely death and was only resumed by George E. Andrews and Bruce Berndt in the 1970s.
He was co-editor of Compositio Mathematica . Wilson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
literature
- Ughtred Shuttleworth Haslam-Jones, Bertram Martin Wilson, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 4: 268-269 (1934-36). On-line
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wilson, Bertram Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1935 |