John Charles Burkill FRS[1] (1 February 1900, Holt, Norfolk, England – 6 April 1993, Sheffield, England) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] Burkill was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.[1][3][4] In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973. His doctoral students include Frederick Gehring.

Private life

He married Margareta Burkill who has been born in Germany but she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her father was German and her mother was Russian. He and Margareta had three children of their own but Margareta arranged for hundreds of refugee children to come to Britain and some joined their household. Two are noted academics.[5]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b Pitt, Harry (1994). "John Charles Burkill. 1 February 1900-6 April 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 40: 44–59. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0028.
  2. ^ "BURKILL, John Charles". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Charles Burkill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ Pitt, H. R. (1998). "John Charles Burkill". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 30: 85–98. doi:10.1112/S0024609397003767.
  5. ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "John Charles Burkill at The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/51528. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51528. Retrieved 5 May 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ Loomis, L. H. (1953). "Review: The Lebesgue integral by J. C. Burkill". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (1): 89. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1953-09660-4.
  7. ^ Garreau, G. A. (4 December 1961). "Review of Mathematical Scholarship Problems by J. C. Burkill and H. M. Cundy". The Mathematical Gazette. 45 (35): 345. doi:10.2307/3614118. JSTOR 3614118. S2CID 149812554.
  8. ^ Ferrar, W. L. (1971). "Review of A Second Course in Mathematical Analysis by J. C. Burkill and H. Burkill". The Mathematical Gazette. 55 (391): 8384. doi:10.2307/3613340. ISSN 0025-5572. JSTOR 3613340.
Academic offices Preceded byHerbert Butterfield Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1968–1973 Succeeded byGrahame Clark
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