University of Manchester Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for
Davenport–Erdős theorem
Davenport–Schinzel sequences
Davenport–Schmidt theorem
Hasse–Davenport relations
Children
James H. Davenport
Awards
Rayleigh Prize (1930) Adams Prize (1940) Senior Berwick Prize (1954) Sylvester Medal (1967) Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Number theory
Institutions
University of Manchester University of Wales University College London University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor
John Edensor Littlewood[2]
Doctoral students
John Horton Conway Alan Baker Peter Elliott H. L. Montgomery Martin Huxley G. L. Watson[2]
Harold Davenport FRS[1] (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory.
^ abRogers, C. A.; Birch, B. J.; Halberstam, H.; Burgess, D. A. (1971). "Harold Davenport 1907-1969". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 159–192. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0006. S2CID 123347742.
^ abHarold Davenport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
HaroldDavenport FRS (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Born on 30 October 1907...
problem is generally attributed to HaroldDavenport in about 1927, though he did not publish it at the time. Davenport did not claim to be its discoverer...
published in 1986). Among his PhD students were Sarvadaman Chowla, HaroldDavenport, and Donald C. Spencer. Spencer reported that in 1941 when he (Spencer)...
Cambridge and beginning his graduate studies. On the recommendation of HaroldDavenport, he was accepted in 1946 to a master's program in mathematics at University...
and, supervised by HaroldDavenport, began to undertake research in number theory. Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers...
Oppenheim and later the conjectured property was further strengthened by HaroldDavenport and Oppenheim. Initial research on this problem took the number n of...
pure and applied mathematical articles. The journal was founded by HaroldDavenport in the 1950s. The journal is published by the London Mathematical Society...
was officially working under J. W. S. Cassels. More influenced by HaroldDavenport, he proved Birch's theorem, one of the results to come out of the Hardy–Littlewood...
numbers was conducted by many number theorists (including Louis Mordell, HaroldDavenport and Carl Ludwig Siegel). In recent years, Lenstra, Brion, and Barvinok...
P(a_{1},\ldots ,a_{n})\not =0.} The Cauchy–Davenport theorem, named after Augustin Louis Cauchy and HaroldDavenport, asserts that for any prime p and nonempty...
cubic fields (Cohn 1954), while HaroldDavenport and Hans Heilbronn computed the asymptotic for all cubic fields (Davenport & Heilbronn 1971). Cohen 1993...
concatenating the square numbers in base 10, is normal in base 10. HaroldDavenport and Erdős (1952) proved that the number represented by the same expression...
Professor of Mathematics Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics HaroldDavenport – Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory Philip Dawid – Professor...
and member of parliament Harry Bromley Davenport (born 1950), English film director and producer HaroldDavenport (1907–1969), mathematician This disambiguation...
Alan Herries Wilson 1934 Sydney Goldstein 1936 W. V. D. Hodge 1940 HaroldDavenport 1942 Homi J. Bhabha 1947 Desmond B. Sawyer 1948 John Charles Burkill...
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total...
ISBN 978-3-540-50629-4. Letter to Louis J. Mordell, March 3, 1964. about Siegel: HaroldDavenport: Reminiscences on conversations with Carl Ludwig Siegel, Mathematical...
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