Frederick Valentine Atkinson

Frederick Valentine Atkinson ( born January 25, 1916 in Pinner ( Middlesex London ), † 13 November 2002 in Toronto, Canada ) was a British mathematician.

FV Atkinson began in 1934, the study of mathematics at Queen 's College, Oxford. In 1939 he received his doctorate with Edward Charles Titchmarsh with a thesis on mean value theorems of Riemann zeta function. He subsequently received a scholarship that in 1940 he gave up but in order to afford as cryptanalyst military service in military intelligence. He has spent three years in India to decipher Japanese codes.

In 1946 he returned to Oxford and took two years later an offer from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, there to establish a teaching and research. About the Station Canberra ( Australia), in 1955, he came in 1960 to the University of Toronto, where in 1981 he sat down to rest. In the last 6 years he has led the local mathematical faculty. FV Atkinson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and 1975 in the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1967, and from 1989 to 1991 he was President of the Canadian Mathematical Society. In 1992, he suffered a massive stroke, which led to loss of speech and partial paralysis.

Atkinson's main areas of work were the number theory ( Riemann zeta function ) and differential equations ( boundary value problems). His name is associated with the set of Atkinson on Fredholm operators.