Leonard James Rogers

Leonard James Rogers

Leonard James Rogers (30 March 1862 in Oxford, England, – 12 September 1933 in Oxford, England) was a British mathematician who was the first to discover the Rogers-Ramanujan identity and Hölder's inequality.

From 1888 to 1919 he was Professor of Mathematics at the Yorkshire College (from 1904, the University of Leeds).

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1924.

Publications

* Leonard James Rogers, "Second memoir on the expansion of certain infinite products" (1894) Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 25, pp 318-343. (The Rogers-Ramanujan identities.)
*L. J. Rogers, "An extension of a certain theorem in inequalities" Messenger of math 17, (1888) 145-150. (Hölder's inequality.)

References

*MacTutor Biography|id=Rogers_James
* [http://www.jstor.org/view/1479571x/ap030003/03a00130/0 Obituary] in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, No. 3. (Dec., 1934), pp. 299-301.


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