John Charles Burkill

John Charles Burkill FRS[1] (1 February 1900 Holt, Norfolk, England – 6 April 1993 Sheffield, England) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.[1][2][3] In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973.

References

  1. 1 2 Pitt, Harry (1994). "John Charles Burkill. 1 February 1900-6 April 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 40: 44–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0028.
  2. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Charles Burkill", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  3. Pitt, H. R. (1998). "John Charles Burkill". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 30: 85. doi:10.1112/S0024609397003767.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Herbert Butterfield
Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
1968–1973
Succeeded by
Grahame Clark
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