Leonard James Rogers

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Leonard James Rogers (Born: 30 March 1862 in Oxford, England, Died: 12 Sept 1933 in Oxford, England) was a British mathematician who was the first to discover the Rogers-Ramanujan identity and Hölder's inequality.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1924.

[edit] Publications

  • Leonard James Rogers, Second memoir on the expansion of certain infinite products (1894) Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 25, pp 318-343. (The Rogers-Ramanujan identities.)
  • L. J. Rogers, An extension of a certain theorem in inequalities Messenger of math 17, (1888) 145-150. (Hölder's inequality.)

[edit] References

  • O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Leonard James Rogers". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • Obituary in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, No. 3. (Dec., 1934), pp. 299-301.
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