Cyril Offord

Cyril Offord, c. 1970

Albert Cyril Offord FRS^[1] (June 9, 1906 – June 4, 2000) was a British mathematician. He received two Ph.D.s in mathematics: from the University of London in 1932, and from Oxford in 1936.^[2]

He was the first professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics.

His Erdős number is 1.

See also

• Littlewood–Offord problem

References

1. ↑ Hayman, W. K. (2002). "Albert Cyril Offord. 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 48: 341. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0020. 
2. ↑ Cyril Offord at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links

• Royal Society basic cv
• Royal Society citation
• Royal Society: photograph
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Cyril Offord", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .