Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Edward Charles Titchmarsh, known as Ted, was a leading British mathematician, born on June 1, 1899, known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917. He was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963 and a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1954 in Amsterdam. He wrote several classic books, including The Zeta-Function of Riemann in 1930, The Theory of Functions in 1932 and Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals in 1937. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1931 and received the De Morgan Medal in 1953 and the Sylvester Medal in 1955. He died in 1963.