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Albert Cyril Offord, Frs, 1906–2000
Author(s) -
Hayman W. K.
Publication year - 2005
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/s0024609305004777
Subject(s) - mathematics , subject (documents) , polynomial , probabilistic logic , calculus (dental) , combinatorics , statistics , library science , mathematical analysis , computer science , medicine , orthodontics
Cyril Offord was one of the most distinguished and certainly the most senior of British mathematical analysts. With J. E. Littlewood, he pioneered the subject of probabilistic analysis by studying the typical behaviour of the zeros of a random polynomial with real coefficients, or an entire function.