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Authorised form of name	Hayman; Walter Kurt (1926 - 2020)
Dates	1926 - 2020
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
Date of birth	06/01/1926
Date of death	01/01/2020
Activity	Career: Visited China in June 1976; report in Personal Information File
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	15/03/1956
Age at election	30
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: Council: 1962-1963
OtherInfo	Walter Hayman is a mathematician who has produced a collection of valuable and wide-ranging work that spans almost all areas of complex analysis. The author of five influential textbooks, he is perhaps best known for his fundamental work on the theory of functions. Over the course of his career, Walter has made many outstanding contributions to the study of functions of a complex variable, notably providing solutions to some of the most famous problems in the field. Foremost amongst these is the so-called asymptotic Bieberbach conjecture, for which he provided a definitive proof in 1955. He also co-founded, with Margaret Hayman, the British Mathematical Olympiad. The author of over 200 scientific papers, Walter has won many of the most prestigious accolades in his field, including election to some of the world’s leading scientific societies. He has received honorary degrees from universities in four countries, and was the dedicatee of a special 2008 volume of the international mathematics journal, Computational Methods and Function Theory. Professor Walter Hayman FRS died on 1 January 2020.
Code	NA4081

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1956/10	Hayman, Walter Kurt: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/1/18/5	Short notes and correspondence re Blackett's service at Imperial College	1970-1974
IM/GA/WS/5044	Hayman, Walter Kurt	nd
IM/005456	Hayman, Walter Kurt	circa 2003
PB/1/33/2	Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society	1956

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