Douglas Northcott
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Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS (31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005)[1][2] was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.
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Douglas Geoffrey Northcott | |
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Born | Douglas Geoffrey Robertson (1916-12-31)31 December 1916 Kensington, London, England |
Died | 8 April 2005(2005-04-08) (aged 88) Sheffield, Yorkshire, England |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Ideal theory |
Spouse |
Rose Hilda Austin
(m. 1949; died 1992) |
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Thesis | Tauberian theorems for functions taking values in Banach spaces (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Frank Smithies |
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