John Charles Burkill

John Charles Burkill ( born 1 February 1900 in Holt, Norfolk, † April 6, 1993 in Sheffield ) is a British mathematician who worked on Analysis.

Burkill attended St. Paul's School in London and studied after winning a scholarship in 1917 and after a short time as a soldier in the First World War in 1919 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. In 1921 he received his degree, but further researched at the university. In 1922 he received his doctorate in Cambridge (via surface integrals), where he 1923 Smith Prize won. In 1924 he became a professor at the University of Liverpool. In 1929 he was back in Cambridge as a lecturer and Fellow of Peterhouse, which he remained until the end of his career. In 1961 he was Reader. In 1967, he first went into retirement, but then took over from 1968 to 1973 the office of Master of Peterhouse College. In 1948, he won the Adams Prize at Cambridge.

Burkill dealt with real analysis and especially integration theory ( the Burkill integral is named after him ) and published several in his time known textbooks.

He was married since 1928 to the German -born Greta Brown and had three children. Together they supported numerous from Germany during the Nazi regime who fled to England and adopted two of them teenagers, including the mathematician Harry Burkill. Harry Reuter was also taken up by them as a refugee from Germany.

In 1953 he became a member of the Royal Society.

Writings

• The Lebesgue Integral, Cambridge University Press 1951
• First course in mathematical analysis, Cambridge University Press 1962
• A second course in mathematical analysis, with Harry Burkill, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 2002
• The Theory of ordinary differential equations, Interscience, Oliver and Boyd 1956