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    Harold Davenport FRS (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Born on 30 October 1907...
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    James Harold Davenport TD CMath CITP FBCS FIMA (born 26 September 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his...
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    problem is generally attributed to Harold Davenport in about 1927, though he did not publish it at the time. Davenport did not claim to be its discoverer...
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  • Cambridge and beginning his graduate studies. On the recommendation of Harold Davenport, he was accepted in 1946 to a master's program in mathematics at University...
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    published in 1986). Among his PhD students were Sarvadaman Chowla, Harold Davenport, and Donald C. Spencer. Spencer reported that in 1941 when he (Spencer)...
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    and, supervised by Harold Davenport, began to undertake research in number theory. Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers...
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  • number of alternations that are allowed. Davenport–Schinzel sequences were first defined in 1965 by Harold Davenport and Andrzej Schinzel to analyze linear...
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  • Oppenheim and later the conjectured property was further strengthened by Harold Davenport and Oppenheim. Initial research on this problem took the number n of...
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  • same sequence of values) does not exist. The theorem is named after Harold Davenport and Paul Erdős, who published it in 1936. Their original proof used...
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    ISBN 978-3-540-50629-4. Letter to Louis J. Mordell, March 3, 1964. about Siegel: Harold Davenport: Reminiscences on conversations with Carl Ludwig Siegel, Mathematical...
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    Harold George Bryant Davenport (January 19, 1866 – August 9, 1949) was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six...
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  • quadratic irrationals or simply rational numbers. It is named after Harold Davenport and Wolfgang M. Schmidt. Given a number α which is either rational...
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    and Beniamino Segre. He also recruited J. A. Todd, Patrick du Val, Harold Davenport and Laurence Chisholm Young, and invited distinguished visitors. In...
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    School, East London, and his academic career started as a student of Harold Davenport, at University College London and later at Trinity College, Cambridge...
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    was officially working under J. W. S. Cassels. More influenced by Harold Davenport, he proved Birch's theorem, one of the results to come out of the Hardy–Littlewood...
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    when he was in high school in 1962. With Erdős's recommendation to Harold Davenport and a long struggle for permission from the Hungarian authorities,...
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  • Edensor Littlewood 1950–1958 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch 1958–1969 Harold Davenport 1971–1993 John G. Thompson 1994–1997 Nigel Hitchin 1998–2020 William...
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  • cubic fields (Cohn 1954), while Harold Davenport and Hans Heilbronn computed the asymptotic for all cubic fields (Davenport & Heilbronn 1971). Cohen 1993...
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    numbers was conducted by many number theorists (including Louis Mordell, Harold Davenport and Carl Ludwig Siegel). In recent years, Lenstra, Brion, and Barvinok...
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  • pure and applied mathematical articles. The journal was founded by Harold Davenport in the 1950s. The journal is published by the London Mathematical Society...
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    the University of Cambridge in 1970, the year after his supervisor Harold Davenport had died. He is a professor at Cardiff University. Huxley proved a...
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  • researcher Guy Davenport (1927–2005), American writer, intellectual, and teacher Harold Davenport (1907–1969), British mathematician Harriett Davenport (1899–1953)...
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  • Alan Herries Wilson 1934 Sydney Goldstein 1936 W. V. D. Hodge 1940 Harold Davenport 1942 Homi J. Bhabha 1947 Desmond B. Sawyer 1948 John Charles Burkill...
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  • P(a_{1},\ldots ,a_{n})\not =0.} The Cauchy–Davenport theorem, named after Augustin Louis Cauchy and Harold Davenport, asserts that for any prime p and nonempty...
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  • Professor of Mathematics Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics Harold Davenport – Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory Philip Dawid – Professor...
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  • concatenating the square numbers in base 10, is normal in base 10. Harold Davenport and Erdős (1952) proved that the number represented by the same expression...
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  • partition function. It was taken up by many other researchers, including Harold Davenport and I. M. Vinogradov, who modified the formulation slightly (moving...
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  • and member of parliament Harry Bromley Davenport (born 1950), English film director and producer Harold Davenport (1907–1969), mathematician This disambiguation...
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  • normal basis, the case when F is a prime field having been settled by Harold Davenport. If K / F is a Galois extension and x in K generates a normal basis...
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    Noether and Richard Brauer on simple algebras, and with Harold Davenport on Gauss sums (Hasse–Davenport relations), and with Cahit Arf on the Hasse–Arf theorem...
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