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RefNoEC/1944/20
Previous numbersCert XV, 90; A55891
LevelItem
TitleWhitehead, John Henry Constantine: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationHe has made distinguished contributions to several branches of pure mathematics. In combinatorial topology he has given a valuable new classification of complexes, and made a detailed study of its invariants; and his topological work has led him to discoveries in the theory of abstract groups and of group-rings. In the theory of continuous groups he has proved a theorem of great importance on the structure of infinitesimal groups. He is joint author with O Veblem of a Cambridge Mathematical Tract on the Foundations of Differential Geometry.
ProposersFrom personal knowledge. M H A Newman; W V D Hodge; P A M Dirac; R Stonely; G H Hardy; E C Titchmarsh; A L Dixon; E A Milne.
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Whitehead, John Henry Constantine: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1833Whitehead; John Henry Constantine (1904 - 1960)1904 - 1960
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