John Edensor Littlewood

John E. Littlewood

FRS
John E. Littlewood; FRS
Born	John Edensor Littlewood; 9 June 1885; Rochester, Kent, England
Died	6 September 1977 (aged 92); Cambridge, England
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Mathematical analysis
Awards	Smith's Prize (1908); Royal Medal (1929); De Morgan Medal (1938); Sylvester Medal (1943); Copley Medal (1958); Senior Berwick Prize (1960);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Barnes
Doctoral students	A. O. L. Atkin; Sarvadaman Chowla; Harold Davenport; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Stanley Skewes; Donald C. Spencer; Albert Ingham;

John Edensor Littlewood FRS (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.

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