Titchmarsh

Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Born: 1 June 1899 in Newbury, Berkshire, England
Died: 18 Jan 1963 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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Edward Titchmarsh was educated at Oxford but World War I interrupted his studies. He graduated in 1922 and undertook research under Hardy. After posts in London (1923-29) and Liverpool (1929-31), he succeeded to Hardy's Savilian chair at Oxford in 1931.

All Titchmarsh's work is in analysis, in fact he refused to lecture on any other topic. His method of working was to work on a topic until he tired of it, when he would write a book on that topic. He studied Fourier series, Fourier integrals writing Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (1937) and, working with Hardy, integral equations.

He also did important work on the Riemann zeta function wroting The Zeta-Function of Riemann (1930) and The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (1951). His most popular book The theory of functions was published in 1932. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1931.

From 1939 Titchmarsh concentrated on the theory of series expansions of eigenfunctions of differential equations, work which helped to resolve problems in quantum mechanics. It was published in Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-Order Differential Equations (1946,1958).

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. M L Cartwright, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, J. London Math. Soc. 39 (1964), 544-565.
  4. M L Cartwright, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 10 (1964), 305-324. 
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