Harold Davenport

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human mathematician number theorist

Harold Davenport was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician renowned for his contributions to number theory and his influential role as a doctoral advisor to many leading mathematicians.

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → number theorist →
areaOfResearch	Diophantine approximation → Waring's problem → analytic number theory → distribution of quadratic residues → geometry of numbers →
awardReceived	De Morgan Medal → Sylvester Medal →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
doctoralAdvisor	Louis Mordell →
doctoralStudent	Alan Baker → Enrico Bombieri → H. Halberstam → J. W. S. Cassels → Klaus Roth → Theodor Estermann →
educatedAt	Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Manchester →
employer	University College London → University of Cambridge → University of Manchester →
familyName	Davenport →
fieldOfWork	mathematics → number theory →
gender	male →
givenName	Harold →
influenced	Alan Baker → Enrico Bombieri → Klaus Roth →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Royal Society →
name	Harold Davenport →
nationality	British →
notableWork	Multiplicative Number Theory → The Higher Arithmetic →
occupation	professor → university teacher →
positionHeld	Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
H. S. M. Coxeter → John H. Conway →	doctoralAdvisor
Harold Davenport →	name
De Morgan Medal →	notableRecipient