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THE Council of the London Mathematical Society has awarded the De Morgan Medal for 1941 to Prof. L. J. Mordell, professor of pure mathematics in the University of Manchester, in recognition of his many important contributions to the theory of numbers. The Adams Prize of the University of Cambridge has been awarded to Dr. H. Davenport, lecturer in mathematics in the University of Manchester, for two essays, (1) “On Waring's Problem”, (2) “On the Geometry of Numbers”. This double award is a very welcome and well-deserved recognition of the growing of the Manchester school of pure mathematics. Prof. Mordell has been the founder and leader of this school, and Dr. Davenport, formerly his pupil and now his colleague, is the most distinguished of its younger members. He has also attracted a considerable number of foreign mathematicians. His activities have always centred around the theory of numbers, and there is probably no other mathematical school which has contributed so much to the development of that theory during the last ten years.
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The Manchester School of Pure Mathematics. Nature 147, 740 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147740a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147740a0