| Authorised form of name | Davenport; Harold (1907 - 1969) |
| Dates | 1907 - 1969 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Huncoat, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 30/10/1907 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 09/06/1969 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
MA, ScD (Cambridge); BSc (Manchester)
Career:
Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, Manchester University
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 14/03/1940 |
| Age at election | 32 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Sylvester Medal 1967 |
| Sources | Sources:
DSB vol 17 pp 209-211
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 112/3/86. Papers deposited in Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 159-192, plate, by C A Rogers, D A Burgess, H Halberstam and B J Birch |
| Royal Society code | NA765 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1940/06 | Davenport, Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/001077 | Davenport, Harold | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/2790 | Davenport, Harold | nd |
| RR/65/68 | Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On sums of positive integral kth powers' by Harold Davenport | January 1939 |
| 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/67/435 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'The asymptotic expansion of integral functions defined by Taylor series' by Ernest Marshall Wright | 1940 |
| 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 |
| RR/72/85 | Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Diophantine inequalities with an infinity of solutions' by Harold Davenport and Claude Ambrose Rogers | 1949 |
| RR/73/163 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'The geometry of numbers of non convex regions with hexagonal symmetry' by B P Bambah | 2 November 1950 |
| RR/73/162 | Letter from Harold Davenport, on a paper 'The geometry of numbers of non convex regions with hexagonal symmetry' by B P Bambah, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 2 November 1950 |
| RR/73/176 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'Farey Section in k (i) and k (p)' by John William Scott Cassels, W Ledermann and Kurt Mahler | 11 November 1950 |
| RR/73/166 | Letter from Harold Davenport on a paper 'The geometry of numbers of non-convex regions with hexagonal symmetry' by B P Bambah, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 January 1951 |
| RR/75/265 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'The reduction of star sets' by C A Rogers | 7 January 1952 |
| RR/77/94 | Referee's report by Harold Davenport, on a paper 'The approximation of logarithms of algebraic numbers' by Kurt Mahler | 4 July 1952 |