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Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (born 1 June 1899 in Newbury died 18 January 1963 at Oxford) was a leading British mathematician.

He was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.

He was known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He wrote several classic books in these areas; his book on the Riemann zeta-function was reissued in an edition edited by Roger Heath-Brown.

He was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963.

Theorems

• Brun-Titchmarsh theorem
• Titchmarsh convolution theorem
• Titchmarsh theorem (on the Hilbert transform)
• Titchmarsh-Kodaira formula

Publications

• The Zeta-Function of Riemann (1930);
• Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (1937) 2nd. edition (1948);
• The Theory of Functions (1932) 2nd. edition(1939);
• Mathematics for the General Reader (1948);
• The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (1951);
• Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part I (1946) 2nd. edition (1962);
• Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part II (1958);

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931
• De Morgan Medal, 1953
• Sylvester Medal, 1955
• Berwick Prize winner, 1956

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Charles Titchmarsh", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Titchmarsh.html  .
• Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project