John Edensor Littlewood

John E. Littlewood
FRS
Born
John Edensor Littlewood

(1885-06-09)9 June 1885
Rochester, Kent, England
Died6 September 1977(1977-09-06) (aged 92)
Cambridge, England
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forMathematical analysis
Awards
  • Smith's Prize (1908)
  • Royal Medal (1929)
  • De Morgan Medal (1938)
  • Sylvester Medal (1943)
  • Copley Medal (1958)
  • Senior Berwick Prize (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor
Ernest Barnes
Doctoral students

John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.

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