Walter Ledermann

Walter Ledermann FRSE (18 March 1911 Berlin, Germany – 22 May 2009 London, England) was a German and British mathematician who worked on matrix theory, group theory, homological algebra, number theory, statistics, and stochastic processes. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1944.

He taught at the universities of Dundee, St Andrews, Manchester, and finally Sussex. At Sussex, Ledermann was appointed professor in 1965, and he continued to teach until he was 89.^[1] He wrote various mathematics textbooks.

Publications

Ledermann, Walter (1949), Introduction to the Theory of Finite Groups, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, MR 0028309, http://books.google.com/books?id=afFUAAAAYAAJ
Ledermann, Walter (1960), Complex numbers, Library of Mathematics, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, MR 0118652
Ledermann, Walter (1977), Introduction to group characters, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-21486-5, MR 0460424, http://books.google.com/books?id=ly88AAAAIAAJ

References

^ Obituary - Professor Walter Ledermann on Sussex University site

Gaines, Fergus J.; Laffey, Thomas J. (1985), "The mathematical work of Walter Ledermann", Linear Algebra and its Applications 69: iii, 1–8, doi:10.1016/0024-3795(85)90066-7, ISSN 0024-3795, MR 798363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(85)90066-7
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Walter Ledermann", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ledermann.html .
"Walter Ledermann 1911–2009", Mathematics Today 45 (4): 140, 2009, ISSN 1361-2042, MR 2560292
Interview with Walter Ledermann

Persondata
Name	Ledermann, Walter
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	18 March 1911
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death	22 May 2009
Place of death	London, England