Winifred Sargent

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Winifred Lydia Caunden Sargent (born May 8, 1905 in Ambergate , Derbyshire , England , † October 1979 in London , England) was an English mathematician and university professor.

life and work

Sargent grew up in the Quaker community in Fritchley and she received her primary education from her father and a small school for children of the Fritchley Society of Friends. In 1915 she attended the Ackworth School. After receiving a Joseph Rowntree Entrance Scholarship, she began studying at Mount School in York and then at Herbert Strutt School. While studying at the Herbert Strutt School, she received a Derby County Scholarship, a State Scholarship, and a Mary Ewart Scholarship to study mathematics at Newnham College , Cambridge in 1923 . As further awards she received an Arthur Hugh Clough in 1927Scholarship, a Mary Ewart travel scholarship in 1928, and a Goldsmiths Company senior scholarship that same year. After graduation, she taught as a math teacher at Bolton High School. In 1931 she was appointed lecturer at Westfield College , which was founded in 1882 as a pioneering college for higher education for women and was awarded the Royal Charter in 1932 . In 1932 she became a member of the London Mathematical Society . In 1936 she went to the Royal Holloway , a college at the University of London, and was promoted to lecturer in mathematics in 1941. In 1948 she moved to Bedford College . From 1950 to 1954 she was a member of the teaching committee of the Mathematical Association. In 1954 she received her PhD with Lancelot Stephen Bosanqueter at the University of Cambridge and was promoted to Reader at Bedford College. Much of her mathematical research included the study of integral types and built on work on Lebesgue integration and the Riemann integral .

Publications (selection)

  • 1929: "On Young's criteria for the convergence of Fourier series and their conjugates". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 25 (1): 26-30.
  • 1935: "The Borel Derivates of a Function". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second series. 38 (1): 180-196.
  • 1936: "On the Cesàro derivatives of a function". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second series. 40 (1): 235-254.
  • 1942: "A descriptive definition of Cesàro – Perron integrals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second series. 47 (1): 212-247.
  • 1942: "On sufficient conditions for a function integrable in the Cesàro-Perron sense to be monotonic". The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. Oxford Series. 12 (1): 148-153.
  • 1946: "On the order of magnitude of the Fourier coefficients of a function integrable in the CλL sense". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. First series. 21 (3): 198-203.
  • 1946: "A mean value theorem involving Cesàro means". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second series. 49 (1): 227-240.
  • 1948: "On the integrability of a product". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. First series. 23 (1): 28-34.
  • 1961: "Some analogues and extensions of Marcinkiewicz's interpolation problem". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series. 11 (1): 457-468.
  • 1964: "On sectionally bounded BK-spaces". Mathematical journal. 83 (1): 57-66.
  • 1966: "On compact matrix transformations between sectionally bounded BK-spaces". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. First series. 41 (1): 79-87.

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personal data
SURNAME Sargent, Winifred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caunden Sargent, Winifred Lydia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ambergate , Derbyshire , England
DATE OF DEATH October 1979
Place of death London , England