William John Ellison
William John Ellison (* 1943 ) is a British mathematician who studies number theory.
Live and act
Ellison studied at Cambridge University , where he made his bachelor's degree (interrupted by a stay in 1969/70 at the University of Michigan ) and received his doctorate in 1970 with John Cassels ("Warings and Hilbert's 17th problem"). He then worked as a post-doc at the University of Bordeaux . In 1972 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and the Lester Randolph Ford Award for his essay "Warings Problem" on Waring's problem .
Fonts (selection)
- Prime Numbers ("Les nombres premiers", 1975). Wiley, New York 1985, ISBN 0-471-8265-3-7 (with Fern Ellison).
- Number theory . In: Jean Dieudonné (ed.): History of Mathematics 1700 to 1900 ("Abrege d'histoire des mathematiques 1700-1900", 1978). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1985, online at archive.org , pp. 171–358, ISBN 3-528-08443-X (together with Fern Ellison).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematical Association of America (Ed.): American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 78 (1971), pp. 10-36, ISSN 0002-9890 Online
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| SURNAME | Ellison, William John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |