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Eric John Fyfe Primrose (1920–1998)
Author(s) -
Watters J. F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
bulletin of the london mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.396
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1469-2120
pISSN - 0024-6093
DOI - 10.1112/s0024609302001133
Subject(s) - scholarship , officer , library science , history , obituary , classics , management , archaeology , political science , law , computer science , economics
Eric Primrose was appointed to a Lectureship in Pure Mathematics at the University College, Leicester, in 1947 and promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 1954. He came to Leicester direct from Oxford where he had spent the 1946–47 year completing his degree, which had been interrupted by war service. Eric was awarded his PhD in 1957 by the University of London. Eric's secondary education was at Chigwell School and in 1939 he won an Open Scholarship in Mathematics and went up to St John's College, Oxford. He took ‘shortened finals’ in 1941 and then entered the RAF as a Technical Officer (Radar), reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant, having served in various locations throughout Europe.