Dudley E. Littlewood

Dudley Ernest Littlewood ( born September 7, 1903 in London, † October 6, 1979 in Llandudno, Wales ) was an English mathematician who worked on representation theory of groups.

Littlewood won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he graduated with John Edensor Littlewood ( not related to him ) began. He won several awards as a student, Wrangler was in the Tripos examinations and completed his studies in 1925. After that, he was a school teacher and in 1928 at University College, Swansea, where he remained until 1947, and under the influence of AR Richardson, the algebra, especially the invariant theory and the theory of group characters turned. He studied this, work by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Schur Isay. In 1934 he became a lecturer there. In 1947, he was briefly a lecturer at Cambridge and from 1948 professor at the University College of North Wales in Bangor ( Wales). In 1970 he went into retirement.

He was married in 1930 and had a son.

Writings

• The theory of group characters and matrix representations of groups. 1940, 2nd edition Oxford 1950.