Dudley Littlewood

Dudley Ernest Littlewood

Born: 7 Sept 1903 in London, England
Died: 6 Oct 1979 in Bangor, Wales

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Dudley Littlewood was educated at Cambridge where his undergraduate tutor was Littlewood (J E) who was not related. After several appointments as lecturer, Dudley Littlewood was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Bangor in 1948.

Littlewood's early work was on quaternion algebras and he laid the foundations of invariant theory. His main work, however, began in 1934 when he began an investigation of group characters, in particular the characters of the symmetric group. He examined S-functions (named after Schur) and applied these to invariant theory. He also studied quantum mechanics and some of the problems in representation theory he considered were motivated from this.

References:

  1. Obituary Dudley Ernest Littlewood, Bull. London Math. Soc. 15 (1983), 56-69. 
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