Category:Harold Davenport (mathematician)

**Harold Davenport**
	English Mathematician (1907-1969)
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Date of birth	30 October 1907; Huncoat
Date of death	9 June 1969; Cambridge
Manner of death	natural causes (lung cancer);
Place of burial	Church of St Mary and St Andrew (52°10′44.49″N 0°5′39.869″E);
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom;
Educated at	Trinity College (1927–1932); Victoria University of Manchester (1924–1927); University of Cambridge (–1935);
Doctoral advisor	John Edensor Littlewood;
Doctoral student	John Horton Conway (1964); Alan Baker (1964); Hugh Montgomery (1972); Martin Huxley (1970); Thomas W. Cusick (1968); Peter D. T. A. Elliott (1966); John Henry H. Chalk (1952); Antonia J. Jones (1969); John Vernon Armitage (1956); George Leo Watson (1953); David A. Burgess (1959); Peter Arthur Barry Pleasants (1967); Robert Winston Keith Odoni (1972); Michael Maurice Dodson (1965);
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	University College London (1945–1958); Bangor University (1941–1945); Victoria University of Manchester (1937–1941); Trinity College (1932–1937); University of Cambridge (1958–1969);
Member of	Royal Society (1940–);
Position held	chairperson (London Mathematical Society, 1957–1959);
Field of work	number theory;
Child	James H. Davenport;
Notable work	Davenport–Schinzel sequence; Cauchy–Davenport theorem; Barban–Davenport–Halberstam theorem; Davenport–Erdős theorem; Davenport–Schmidt theorem; Hasse–Davenport relation; Davenport constant;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society (1940); Adams Prize (1941); Senior Berwick Prize (1954); Rayleigh Medal and Prize (1930); Sylvester Medal (1967);
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	Q1385023; ISNI: 0000000109308181; VIAF ID: 108168988; GND ID: 117709360; Library of Congress authority ID: n80139843; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12298039m; IdRef ID: 031839959; Libraries Australia ID: 35033567; NL CR AUT ID: jx20060919003; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 070425221; NORAF ID: 90614954; NUKAT ID: n97059221; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 32722; PLWABN ID: 9810645354305606; J9U ID: 987007352470105171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00191102; SBN author ID: UFIV074777; Open Library ID: OL4738264A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 18241
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