Archibald Read Richardson
| Archibald Read Richardson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 August 1881 |
| Died | 4 November 1954 (aged 73) |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Known for | Littlewood–Richardson rule |
| Notable awards | FRS (1946)[1] |
Archibald Read Richardson FRS[1] (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.[2][3][4]
Career
Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Littlewood–Richardson rule for their multiplication.
Awards and honours
Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] on 21 March 1946.
References
- 1 2 3 Turnbull, H. W. (1955). "Archibald Read Richardson 1881-1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1: 223–226. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0016.
- ↑ Turnbull, H. W. (1956). "Archibald Read Richardson". Journal of the London Mathematical Society (3): 376–384. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-31.3.376.
- ↑ Turnbull, H. W. (2008). "Archibald R. Richardson". Edinburgh Mathematical Notes 40: 31. doi:10.1017/S0950184300000343.
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Archibald Read Richardson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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