Cyril Offord

Cyril Offord, c. 1970

Albert Cyril Offord FRS^[1] (June 9, 1906 – June 4, 2000) was a British mathematician. He received two Ph.D.s in mathematics: from the University of London in 1932, and from Oxford in 1936.^[2]

He was the first professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics.

His Erdős number is 1.

See also

• Littlewood–Offord problem

References

1. ^ Hayman, W. K. (2002). "Albert Cyril Offord. 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 48: 341. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0020.  edit
2. ^ Cyril Offord at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

External links

• Royal Society basic cv
• Royal Society citation
• Royal Society: photograph

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Name	Offord, Cyril
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Date of birth	June 9, 1906
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Date of death	June 4, 2000
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