Edward Collingwood

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Edward Foyle Collingwood (born January 17, 1900 in Alnwick ; † October 25, 1970 , ibid) was a British mathematician who mainly dealt with function theory.

Edward Collingwood (center) with Dieter Gaier, Mary Cartwright

Collingwood came from a family with a military and marine tradition (his great-grandfather's brother was Lord Collingwood , his father commanded the Lancashire Fusiliers as Colonel in the Battle of Omdurman under Lord Kitchener in 1898 ) and he initially pursued a career in the navy. He attended the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight and the Dartmouth Royal Naval College before joining the Royal Navy. During the First World War, he served on the HMS Collingwood, but had to quit service after an accident in 1916, shortly before the Skagerrak battle.

From 1918 he studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University with Godfrey Harold Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood . Among his fellow students, he was known as the Admiral , who was reserved in nature . In 1922 he went to Aberystwyth to the University College of Wales at the invitation of William Henry Young . In 1923 he received the Rayleigh Prize and in 1924 his first publication followed, a generalization of the second law in Rolf Nevanlinna's theory of value distribution . He received a Rouse Ball scholarship with which he was at the Sorbonne in 1924/25 . In 1929 he received his doctorate from Littlewood (Contributions to the theory of integral functions of finite order). He then lectured as Stewart of Trinity College. In 1937 he became High Sherriff of Northumberland .

During World War II he served as a scientist (and reserve captain) in the Royal Navy, among other things, he was in charge of scientific mine development. For this he received the CBE and the Legion of Merit of the USA after the war . After the war, he researched meromorphic functions and associated cluster sets , collaborating with Mary Cartwright , among others .

In 1954 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1965 of the Royal Society . 1969 to 1970 he was President of the London Mathematical Society , whose treasurer he was also 1960 to 1969. From 1953 he was chairman of the council of Durham University . In 1962 he was ennobled. Since 1963 he was also chairman of the Applied Probability Trust.

Collingwood was known as a collector of Chinese porcelain and also had a collection of paintings (18th century). He was never married.

Collingwood also held senior health posts. 1953 to 1968 he was chairman of the Newcastle Hospital Board and 1959 to 1967 vice president of the International Hospital Federation. He was also from 1960 to 1967 treasurer of the Medical Research Council and from 1963 Chairman (Chairman) of the Central Health Services Council.

Fonts

  • with AJ Lohwater The theory of cluster sets , Cambridge University Press 1966

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on the family home Lilburn Tower, 20 km southeast of Alnwick
  2. ↑ He had been Vice Admiral under Nelson, Deputy Commander at Trafalgar
  3. ↑ He fell into a hatch, broke his wrist and injured his knee
personal data
SURNAME Collingwood, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collingwood, Edward Foyle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Alnwick
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1970
Place of death Alnwick