- Percy John Daniell
Percy John Daniell (
9 January 1889 –25 May 1946 ) was a pure and applied mathematician. In a series of papers published between 1918 and 1928, he developed and expanded a generalized theory of integration and differentiation, which is today known as the Daniell scheme.Daniell was born in
Valparaiso ,Chile . His family relocated to England in 1895. Daniell completed his university education at Cambridge (where he was the lastSenior Wrangler in 1909) andGöttingen . He held university positions at theRice Institute ,Houston ,Texas , and later at theUniversity of Sheffield . Daniell also advised the BritishMinistry of Supply during thesecond world war . The strain of work during the war took a heavy toll on his health. He died on 25 May 1946, after having collapsed at his home a few weeks earlier.References
* Stewart, C.A. (1947), "P. J. Daniell", "J. London Math. Soc." s1-22: 75–80.
* Daniell, Percy John (1918), "A general form of integral", "Annals of Mathematics" 19: 279–94.
* –––––– (1919a), "Integrals in an infinite number of dimensions", "Annals of Mathematics" 20: 281–88.
* –––––– (1919b), "Functions of limited variation in an infinite number of dimensions", "Annals of Mathematics" 21: 30–38.
* –––––– (1920), "Further properties of the general integral", "Annals of Mathematics" 21: 203–20.
* –––––– (1921), "Integral products and probability", "American Journal of Mathematics" 43: 143–62.
* Shilov, G. E., and Gurevich, B. L. (1978), "Integral, Measure, and Derivative: A Unified Approach," Richard A. Silverman, trans., Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-63519-8External links
Aldrich, J. (2007) [http://www.jehps.net/Decembre2007/Aldrich.pdf "But you have to remember P.J.Daniell of Sheffield"] [http://www.jehps.net/indexang.html Electronic Journ@l for History of Probability and Statistics] December 2007.
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