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4 unusual facts about Littlewood


Analytic number theory

For example, the circle method of Hardy and Littlewood was conceived as applying to power series near the unit circle in the complex plane; it is now thought of in terms of finite exponential sums (that is, on the unit circle, but with the power series truncated).

An important breakthrough was the application of analytic tools to the problem by Hardy and Littlewood.

In the early 20th century G. H. Hardy and Littlewood proved many results about the zeta function in an attempt to prove the Riemann Hypothesis.

Newby Mill, Shaw

Subsequently, now named Shaw No 3 Mill, it became part of Littlewood's Shaw National Distribution Centre.


Darryl Neilson

Darryl sacrificed his kidney for his dying father and desperately tried to separate his mother Marj (Elizabeth McRae) from her lover Laurie (Chic Littlewood) through blackmail.

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

It was first produced and directed by Littlewood in February 1959, at her Theatre Workshop, based in the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

France Littlewood

At the Colne Valley by-election, 1907, Littlewood was a leading supporter of Victor Grayson, an ILP member who was refused national support because he did not support the Labour Party.

Immanant of a matrix

Littlewood and Richardson also studied its relation to Schur functions in the representation theory of the symmetric group.

Joan Littlewood

Littlewood and her company lived and slept in the Theatre Royal while it was restored.

John Edensor Littlewood

In a 1947 lecture, the Danish mathematician Harald Bohr said, "To illustrate to what extent Hardy and Littlewood in the course of the years came to be considered as the leaders of recent English mathematical research, I may report what an excellent colleague once jokingly said: 'Nowadays, there are only three really great English mathematicians: Hardy, Littlewood, and Hardy–Littlewood.'"

N! conjecture

In fact, we can obtain in this manner the Schur functions, the Hall–Littlewood symmetric functions, the Jack symmetric functions, the zonal symmetric functions, the zonal spherical functions, and the elementary and monomial symmetric functions.

Oh What a Lovely War

Oh, What a Lovely War! - a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop

Sorrel Carson

ALRA was unique in it curriculum in that it combined classic theatrical training with both the ensemble modernist approach of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and acting for camera.


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