John Charles Burkill

John Charles Burkill FRS[1] (1 February 1900, Holt, Norfolk, England – 6 April 1993, Sheffield, England) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.[1][2][3] In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973. His doctoral students include Frederick Gehring.

Selected publications

  • The Lebesgue Integral, Cambridge University Press 1951[4]
  • The Theory of ordinary differential equations, Interscience, Oliver and Boyd 1956
  • Mathematical Scholarship Problems, with H. M. Cundy, Cambridge University Press 1961[5]
  • First course in mathematical analysis, Cambridge University Press 1962
  • A second course in mathematical analysis, with Harry Burkill, Cambridge University Press, 1970; 1980 1st pbk edition; 2002 pbk edition
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References

  1. Pitt, Harry (1994). "John Charles Burkill. 1 February 1900-6 April 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 40: 44–59. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0028.
  2. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Charles Burkill", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  3. Pitt, H. R. (1998). "John Charles Burkill". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 30: 85. doi:10.1112/S0024609397003767.
  4. Loomis, L. H. (1953). "Review: The Lebesgue integral by J. C. Burkill". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1): 89.
  5. Garreau, G. A. (4 December 1961). "Review of Mathematical Scholarship Problems by J. C. Burkill and H. M. Cundy". The Mathematical Gazette. 45 (35): 345.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Herbert Butterfield
Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
1968–1973
Succeeded by
Grahame Clark
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