Copson

Edward Thomas Copson

Born: 21 Aug 1901 in Coventry, England
Died: 16 Feb 1980 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

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Educated at Oxford, Edward Copson was greatly influenced by Hardy. Appointed by Whittaker to a lecturing post in Edinburgh in 1922, he remained there until in 1930 he became a lecturer at St Andrews under Turnbull. He spent 1934 in Greenwich, then returned to the University of St Andrews to a chair in Dundee, then in 1950 to fill Turnbull's chair in St Andrews.

Copson studied classical analysis, asymptotic expansions, differential and integral equations and problems in theoretical physics. His most famous book The theory of functions of a complex variable sold so well in the USA that an extension on his house built with the profits he called The American Wing .

References:

  1. Edward Thomas Copson, Bull. London Math. Soc. 13 (1981), 564-567.
  2. Obituary, Yearbook of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Session 1979-80 (1981), 8-11.
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