Claude Ambrose Rogers

Claude Ambrose Rogers in 1976

Claude Ambrose Rogers FRS(1 November 1920 – 5 December 2005) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and geometry, and in particular found the Rogers bound for dense packings of spheres and a counterexample to the Busemann–Petty problem. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1959.

Publications

• Rogers, C. A. (1964), Packing and covering, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, No. 54, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-06121-6, MR0172183, http://books.google.com/books?id=kS2pPwAACAAJ 
• Rogers, C. A. (1970), Hausdorff measures, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62491-6, MR0281862, http://books.google.com/books?id=XFZFz_04tw4C 
• Rogers, C. Ambrose (1975), "Probabilistic and combinatorial methods in the study of the geometry of Euclidean spaces", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Vancouver, B. C., 1974), Vol. 1, Canad. Math. Congress, Montreal, Que., pp. 497–500, MR0423192, http://mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1974.1/ 
• Jayne, John E.; Rogers, C. Ambrose (2002), Selectors, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-09628-5, MR1915965, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7322.html 

References

• Larman, David, "Ambrose Rogers", L. M. S. Newsletter, Obituary, http://old.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/344/344_08.html 
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Claude Ambrose Rogers", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rogers.html .
• Claude Ambrose Rogers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Rogers, Claude Ambrose
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	1 November 1920
Place of birth
Date of death	5 December 2005
Place of death