| LC control no. | no 99026972 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wright, E. M. (Edward Maitland), 1906-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Wright, Edward Maitland, 1906-2005 |
| Birth date | 1906-02-13 |
| Death date | 2005-02-02 |
| Place of birth | Leeds (England) |
| Field of activity | Number theory |
| Affiliation | University of Aberdeen |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians College teachers College administrators |
| Found in | An introduction to the theory of numbers, 1988: t.p. (E.M. Wright, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Aberdeen) LC in OCLC, April 14, 1999: (hdg.: Wright, Edward Maitland, 1906-; usage: E.M. Wright) Telegraph (online), viewed Nov. 7, 2017 (in obituary dated Feb. 10, 2005: Sir Edward Wright; b. Edward Maitland Wright, Feb. 13, 1906, at a small village near Leeds; d. Feb. 2 [2005], aged 98; former principal and vice-chancellor of Aberdeen University; became one of the country's most distinguished mathematicians, despite being largely self-taught; during his academic career, worked in the area of analytic number theory, a branch of number theory which uses real and complex analysis to investigate the properties of integers and prime numbers, and was co-author with GH Hardy, his tutor at Oxford, of Introduction to the theory of numbers (1938); knighted in 1977) |
| Associated language | eng |
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