E. M. Wright

E. M. Wright

Sir Edward Maitland Wright (February 13, 1906 – February 2, 2005) was an English mathematician.

He is best known for co-authoring “Hardy and Wright”, "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers", with G. H. Hardy (1938). After obtaining a self-taught first-class mathematics degree as an external student at the University of London, Wright studied at Jesus College, Oxford and Christ Church, Oxford. His research career lasted from 1931 until the early 1980s, and he was for many years a professor at the University of Aberdeen, where a building named after him now exists. Wright worked in many different areas, including number theory and graph theory, and published over a hundred papers. Most of his work focused on analytic number theory.

He was knighted in 1977.

External links

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article512938.ece Obituary] , "Times Online".
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1483164/Sir-Edward-Wright.html Obituary] , "Daily Telegraph".
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