Edward Thomas Copson

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birth_date = 21 August, 1901
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Edward Thomas Copson (21 August, 1901 - 16 February, 1980) was a British mathematician. Copson was a pupil at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, then studied at St. John's College, Oxford and went on to lecture at the University of Edinburgh, University of St. Andrews, the Royal Naval College and eventually becoming the Regius Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews.

Copson’s primary focus was in classical analysis, asymptotic expansions, differential and integral equations, and applications to problems in theoretical physics. His first book "The theory of functions of a complex variable" was published in 1935. [ [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Copson.html University of St Andrews biography on Edward Thomas Copson] ]

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