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Authorised form of nameMordell; Louis Joel (1888 - 1972)
Dates1888 - 1972
Place of birthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of birth28 January 1888
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death12/03/1972
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
BA (Camb)
Career:
Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/05/1924
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1949
SourceSources:
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
CodeNA2204
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/003160Mordell, Louis Joelnd
MS/752Two mathematical papers by Louis Joel Mordell
RR/40/18Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The arithmetically reduced indefinite quadratic form in n-variables' by Louis Joel MordellJanuary 1931
RR/39/100Referee'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]
NLB/62/357Copy 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/70/209Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'A note on a problem of Mahler' by Claude Ambrose Rogers1947
RR/71/270Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'On the quadratic form x2—7y2' by P Varnavides1948
RR/72/84Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'Diophantine inequalities with an infinity of solutions' by Harold Davenport and Claude Ambrose Rogers1949
NLB/63/712Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Godfrey Harold] Hardy, FRS04 December 1922
RR/66/158Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'On non-commuting numbers and some applications' by Samuel Roslington Milner[June 1939]
RR/69/217Referee'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 Mordell3 July 1945
NLB/69/465Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Louis Joel] Mordell, FRS23 April 1926
IM/GA/WS/1359Mordell, Louis Joelnd
RR/46/120Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'An extension of Waring's problems' by E Maitland Wright10 November 1932
EC/1924/09Mordell, Louis Joel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/40/19Referee's report by Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'The arithmetically reduced indefinite quadratic form in n-variables' by Louis Joel MordellDecember 1930
RR/50/37Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'Group characters and algebra' by D E Littlewood and Archibald Read Richardson8 July 1933
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