Biography:Archibald Read Richardson

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Short description: British mathematician
Archibald Read Richardson
Born(1881-08-21)21 August 1881
Died4 November 1954(1954-11-04) (aged 73)
Known forLittlewood–Richardson rule
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Archibald Read Richardson FRS[1] (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.[2][3][4]

Career

Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Littlewood–Richardson rule for their multiplication.

Awards and honours

Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] on 21 March 1946.

See also

References

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  2. Turnbull, H. W. (1956). "Archibald Read Richardson". Journal of the London Mathematical Society s1-31 (3): 376–384. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-31.3.376. 
  3. Turnbull, H. W. (2008). "Archibald R. Richardson". Edinburgh Mathematical Notes 40: 31–32. doi:10.1017/S0950184300000343. 
  4. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Archibald Read Richardson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richardson_Archibald.html .