Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (June 1, 1899 – January 18, 1963) was a leading British mathematician.[1][2][3]

Professor Ted Titchmarsh
Born	Edward Charles Titchmarsh 1 June 1899 Newbury, Berkshire, England
Died	18 January 1963 (aged 63) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Known for	Brun–Titchmarsh theorem Titchmarsh convolution theorem Titchmarsh theorem (on the Hilbert transform) Titchmarsh–Kodaira formula
Awards	De Morgan Medal (1953) Sylvester Medal (1955) Senior Berwick Prize (1956) Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Academic advisors	G. H. Hardy[2]
Doctoral students	Lionel Cooper John Bryce McLeod[2] Frederick Valentine Atkinson[2]

Education

Titchmarsh was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.

Career

Titchmarsh was known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He wrote several classic books in these areas; his book on the Riemann zeta-function was reissued in an edition edited by Roger Heath-Brown.

Titchmarsh was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963. He was a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in 1954 in Amsterdam.

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1935-1947.[4]

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931[1]
• De Morgan Medal, 1953
• Sylvester Medal, 1955
• Berwick Prize winner, 1956

Publications

• The Zeta-Function of Riemann (1930);
• Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (1937)[5] 2nd. edition(1939) 2nd. edition (1948);
• The Theory of Functions (1932);[6]
• Mathematics for the General Reader (1948);
• The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (1951);[7] 2nd edition, revised by D. R. Heath-Brown (1986)
• Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part I (1946)[8] 2nd. edition (1962);
• Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part II (1958);[9]

References

1. Cartwright, M. L. (1964). "Edward Charles Titchmarsh 1899-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 305–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0018.
2. Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Charles Titchmarsh", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
4. "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
5. Tamarkin, J. D. (1938). "Review: Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (11): 764–765. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1938-06876-0.
6. Chittenden, E. W. (1933). "Review: The Theory of Functions by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (9): 650–651. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05690-2.
7. Levinson, N. (1952). "Review: The theory of the Riemann zeta-function by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (3): 401–403. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09592-6.
8. Trjitzinsky, W. J. (1948). "Review: Eigenfunction expansions associated with second-order differential equations by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (5): 485–487. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1948-09001-2.
9. Hartman, Philip (1959). "Review: Eigenfunction expansions associated with second-order differential equations, Part 2 by E. C. Titchmarsh" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 65 (3): 151–154. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1959-10307-4.