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Louis J. Mordell

Louis Mordell
Louis Mordell in Nice, 1970.
Born
Louis Joel Mordell

(1888-01-28)28 January 1888
Died12 March 1972(1972-03-12) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge[1]
Known forMordell conjecture
Chowla–Mordell theorem
Erdős–Mordell inequality
Mordell–Weil theorem
Mordell curve
SpouseMabel Elizabeth Cambridge[2]
ChildrenKathleen, Donald[1]: 510 
AwardsSmith's Prize (1912)
De Morgan Medal (1941)
Senior Berwick Prize (1946)
Sylvester Medal (1949)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBirkbeck College
UMIST
Victoria University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorHenry Frederick Baker[2][3]
Doctoral studentsRam Prakash Bambah
J. W. S. Cassels[2][3]

Louis Joel Mordell (28 January 1888 – 12 March 1972) was an American-born British mathematician, known for his research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Cassels, J. W. S. (1973). "Louis Joel Mordell 1888-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 493–520. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0018. S2CID 56887094.
  2. ^ a b c d O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Louis J. Mordell", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  3. ^ a b Louis J. Mordell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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