Albert Cyril Offord FRS[1] (June 9, 1906 – June 4, 2000) was a British mathematician. He received two Ph.D.s in mathematics: from the University of London in 1932, and from Oxford in 1936.[2]
He was the first professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics.
His Erdős number is 1.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Hayman, W. K. (2002). "Albert Cyril Offord. 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 48: 341. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0020.
- ^ Cyril Offord at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links [edit]
- Royal Society basic cv
- Royal Society citation
- Royal Society: photograph
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Cyril Offord", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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