Theodore William Chaundy

Theodore William Chaundy, born in Oxford on 19 January 1889 and died on 14 April 1966, was an English mathematician who introduced Burchnall-Chaundy theory, which carries his name beside that of his collaborator Burchnall. He was the son of a businessman whose shop and home stood at 49 Broad Street in Oxford, attended Oxford High School for Boys and read mathematics at Balliol College on a scholarship. In 1912 he became a lecturer at Oxford and was later made a Fellow of Christ Church, where he spent his teaching career, and he married Hilda Weston Dott in 1920. He wrote the textbook The Differential Calculus (1935) and, with others, The Printing of Mathematics (1954), a guide for authors, editors and compositors at the University Press, Oxford, and his Elementary Differential Equations appeared posthumously in 1969. He later supervised the doctoral work of Kathleen Ollerenshaw at Oxford.