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DR. EDWARD MAITLAND WRIGHT, who has been appointed to succeed the late Prof. H. M. Macdonald in the chair of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, is only twenty-nine years of age. He took his degree at the University of London in 1926 with first class honours in mathematics. He was a scholar of Jesus College, Oxford from 1926 until 1930 and has been a research student in mathematics at Christ Church since. He gained both the Junior and Senior Mathematical Scholarships of the University and first classes in each of the mathematical ‘schools’. He has also been a University Senior Student and, for one year, lecturer in mathematics at King's College, London. He was trained in research work in mathematics under Prof. G. H. Hardy in Oxford and Prof. Landau in Gottingen. He has published nearly twenty papers, mainly on the additive theory of numbers and especially on Waring's theorem. A book by Prof. Hardy and him will shortly be published by the Oxford University Press; it will be accurately, though, perhaps, deceptively described as “An Introduction to Arithmetic”.
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Prof. E. Maitland Wright. Nature 136, 711 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136711b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136711b0