Frank Smithies
British mathematician (1912–2002) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Smithies FRSE (10 March 1912 – 16 November 2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.
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Frank Smithies | |
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Born | (1912-03-10)10 March 1912 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | 16 November 2002(2002-11-16) (aged 90) Cambridge, England |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Awards | FRSE |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | The Theory of Linear Integral Equations (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | G. H. Hardy |
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