Biography:William J. Ellison
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Short description: British mathematician
William John Ellison (1943 - 16 March 2022[1]) was a British mathematician who worked on number theory.
Ellison studied at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his bachelor's degree and then, after spending the academic year 1969/70 at the University of Michigan, his PhD in 1970 under John Cassels with thesis Waring's and Hilbert's 17th Problems.[2] Subsequently, he became a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux. In 1972 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and a Lester Randolph Ford Award for his article "Waring's Problem“,[3] an exposition of Waring's problem
Selected works
- with Fern Ellison: Prime Numbers (Les nombres premiers, 1975). Wiley, New York 1985, ISBN:0-471-8265-3-7
- with Fern Ellison: Zahlentheorie In: Jean Dieudonné (ed.): Geschichte der Mathematik 1700 bis 1900 (Abrege d'histoire des mathematiques 1700–1900, 1978). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1985, online at archive.org, pp. 171–358, ISBN:3-528-08443-X
References
- ↑ "Hommage à William Ellison – wikipédien de la Cubale bordelaise" (in fr). Wikimédia France. 9 July 2022. https://www.wikimedia.fr/hommage-a-william-ellison-wikipedien-de-la-cubale-bordelaise/.
- ↑ William J. Ellison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Ellison, W. J. (1971). "Waring's problem". Amer. Math. Monthly 78 (1): 10–36. doi:10.2307/2317482. http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/warings-problem.
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