E. M. Wright

Sir Edward Maitland Wright, cited as EM Wright, ( born February 13, 1906 in Farnley in Leeds, † February 2nd 2005 in Reading ) was a British mathematician who worked on number theory.

After the soap factory, his father went bankrupt he grew up with his mother, a music teacher. He put as an external London University, the Bachelor's degree examination in mathematics, whereupon he prepared the self-study, while at the same time after only 16 years as a teacher, worked for French. From 1926 he studied with a won scholarship to Oxford University (Jesus College, Christ Church College as a Junior Research Fellow 1930-1933 ), where he was a student of Godfrey Harold Hardy. After a year in Göttingen he became a lecturer in 1932 at Kings College in London, and after graduating in 1933 at Christ College in Oxford. In 1935 he became a professor in Aberdeen. During World War II he was an intelligence officer in the connecting rod of the Royal Air Force and MI 6 1962 to 1976 he headed the University of Aberdeen as Principal and Vice-Chancellor, after which he was until his retirement in 1983 Research Fellow at the University.

In 1938 he published with the Hardy -known textbook Introduction to the theory of numbers.

In the new edition of their 1954 textbook, there is also evidence that there is for each number n is a Taxicab number.

In 1977 he was knighted and in 1978 received the Senior Berwick Prize. He was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1937) and was more honorary doctorates.

His son John Wright was also Professor of Mathematics (Reading).

Writings

• Hardy, Wright: An introduction to the theory of numbers, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1954, 5th edition 1979, new edition 2008, Roger Heath -Brown, Joseph Silverman.