| Authorised form of name | Mordell; Louis Joel (1888 - 1972) |
| Dates | 1888 - 1972 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of birth | 28 January 1888 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 12/03/1972 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
BA (Camb)
Career:
Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1924 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1949 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 18 pp 653-655
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 493-520, plate, by J W S Cassels |
| Royal Society code | NA2204 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/003160 | Mordell, Louis Joel | nd |
| MS/752 | Two mathematical papers by Louis Joel Mordell | |
| RR/40/18 | Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The arithmetically reduced indefinite quadratic form in n-variables' by Louis Joel Mordell | January 1931 |
| RR/40/19 | Referee's report by Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'The arithmetically reduced indefinite quadratic form in n-variables' by Louis Joel Mordell | December 1930 |
| RR/39/100 | Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'Kronecker's fundamental limit formula in the theory of numbers and elliptic functions, and similar theorems' by Louis Joel Mordell | [June 1929] |
| RR/70/209 | Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'A note on a problem of Mahler' by Claude Ambrose Rogers | 1947 |
| RR/46/120 | Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'An extension of Waring's problems' by E Maitland Wright | 10 November 1932 |
| RR/50/37 | Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'Group characters and algebra' by D E Littlewood and Archibald Read Richardson | 8 July 1933 |
| NLB/62/357 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Seldon Piercy Esquire; 117 Prince of Wales Road, Chalk Farm, N.W.5. | 31 January 1922 |
| RR/71/270 | Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'On the quadratic form x2—7y2' by P Varnavides | 1948 |
| NLB/63/712 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS | 04 December 1922 |
| RR/72/84 | Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'Diophantine inequalities with an infinity of solutions' by Harold Davenport and Claude Ambrose Rogers | 1949 |
| RR/69/217 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'On lattice points in n-dimensional star bodies I. Existence theorems' by Kurt Mahler and Louis Joel Mordell | 3 July 1945 |
| NLB/69/465 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Louis Joel] Mordell, FRS | 23 April 1926 |
| IM/GA/WS/1359 | Mordell, Louis Joel | nd |
| EC/1924/09 | Mordell, Louis Joel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |