Lancelot Bosanquet
Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet (born December 26, 1903 in St. Stephen's-by-Saltash, Cornwall , † January 10, 1984 in Cambridge ) was a British mathematician.
Bosanquet was the son of a clergyman. He studied at Oxford University (Balliol College), where he received his doctorate (D. Phil.) In 1929 under Godfrey Harold Hardy . In 1935 he received a D. Sc. In 1929 he became a lecturer at University College London , 1936 reader and 1966 professor. In 1971 he retired and moved to Cambridge.
1964/65 he was at the University of Utah and 1969/70 at the University of Western Ontario .
As a mathematician, he dealt with series summations, e.g. B. divergent series, convergence and summation of Dirichlet series and Fourier series, integrals such as the Laplace-Stieltjes integral as well as Tauber theorems, convexity theorems, mean theorems and inequalities.
From 1947 to 1951 he was secretary of the London Mathematical Society and from 1950 to 1954 its vice-president. 1951 to 1955 he was editor of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
He was an associate editor of Hardy's Collected Works.
His PhD students include David Borwein , Claude Rogers , Cyril Offord , Mohammed Mehdi and Winfried Sargent .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Lancelot Bosanquet. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ^ Topic Theory of functions , Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bosanquet, Lancelot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bosanquet, Lancelot Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Stephen's-by-Saltash, Cornwall , England , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1984 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , England , UK |