John William Scott Cassels

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John William Scott Cassels was a Scottish mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and Diophantine approximation.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
areaOfInfluence British school of number theory
awardReceived De Morgan Medal NERFINISHED
Senior Berwick Prize NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
doctoralAdvisor Louis Mordell NERFINISHED
doctoralStudent Bryan Birch NERFINISHED
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED
educatedAt Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Cassels NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Diophantine approximation
Galois cohomology NERFINISHED
arithmetic geometry
elliptic curves
local fields
mathematics
number theory
givenName John NERFINISHED
influenced Bryan Birch NERFINISHED
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED
influencedBy Louis Mordell NERFINISHED
knownFor Cassels–Tate pairing in arithmetic geometry
contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves
work in Diophantine approximation
work in number theory
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh NERFINISHED
name John William Scott Cassels NERFINISHED
notableStudent Bryan Birch NERFINISHED
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED
notableWork An Introduction to Diophantine Approximation NERFINISHED
Cassels–Tate pairing NERFINISHED
Lectures on Elliptic Curves NERFINISHED
Local Fields NERFINISHED
Rational Quadratic Forms NERFINISHED
positionHeld Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
sexOrGender male
workplace Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED

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