Name Archibald Richardson Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Notable awards Royal Society (1946) | |
Born 21 August 1881 ( 1881-08-21 ) Known for Littlewood–Richardson rule Died November 4, 1954, Cape Town, South Africa | ||
Archibald Read Richardson FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.
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Career
Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Littlewood–Richardson rule for their multiplication.
Awards and honours
Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 March 1946.
References
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