Stanley Skewes
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Stanley Skewes (1899–1988) was a South African mathematician, best known for his discovery of the Skewes number in 1933. He was one of John Edensor Littlewood's students at Cambridge University.[1]
He received his PhD at Cambridge in 1938 for his discovery of the first Skewes number.[1] He discovered the second Skewes number in 1955.[2]
Publications
- Skewes, S. (1933). "On the difference π(x) − Li(x) (I)". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 8 (4): 277–283. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-8.4.277. Archived May 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- Skewes, S. (1955). "On the difference π(x) − Li(x) (II)". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 5 (17): 48–70. doi:10.1112/plms/s3-5.1.48. Archived May 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
References
- 1 2 Peter Borwein (2008). The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Afficionado and Virtuoso Alike. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 375. ISBN 978-0-387-72125-5.
- ↑ Igor Ushakov (2007). Histories of Scientific Insights. Lulu.com. pp. 235–. ISBN 978-1-4303-2849-0.
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