Edward Thomas Copson

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Edward Thomas Copson (born August 21, 1901 in Coventry , † February 16, 1980 in St Andrews ) was a British mathematician .

He made his bachelor's degree at St John's College, Oxford University in 1922 , where he was a student of Augustus Edward Hough Love and Godfrey Harold Hardy . Edmund Taylor Whittaker made him a lecturer (lecturer) at the University of Edinburgh . An anecdote has it that he interviewed Copson at a train station ( Windermere ) and offered him a teaching position on the train that followed. He stayed in Edinburgh until 1930 when he was a lecturer at St Andrews College under Herbert Turnbull . In 1931 he married Beatrice Mary Whittaker, Whittaker's eldest daughter. In 1934 he was given a chair in mathematics at Queen's College in Dundee , later Dundee University . From 1950 to 1969 he was in the successor of Herbert Westren Turnbull Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews .

Copson primarily examined classical analysis , asymptotic developments, differential and integral equations and problems in theoretical physics . He wrote a standard work on the theory of functions , The theory of functions of a complex variable (1935), which in particular in the United States sold so well that he could expand his house to what he called "American wing" by the fees.

Copson was considered an excellent teacher who presented the material with remarkable clarity. He did not use any records for this.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ET Copson appointed Regius professor at St Andrews ; University of St Andrews press release; accessed on November 27, 2015.

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