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John Edensor Littlewood

1885 to 1977 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for John Edensor Littlewood across 3 places, from 1885 to 1947. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where John Edensor Littlewood was documented, and when

June 1885month
Rochester, Kentattested “Littlewood was born on the 9th of June 1885 in Rochester, Kent, the eldest son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland).” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1900year
Londonattested “Littlewood returned to Britain in 1900 to attend St Paul's School in London, studying under Francis Sowerby Macaulay, an influential algebraic geometer.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1947year
Great Britainattested “In a 1947 lecture, the Danish mathematician Harald Bohr said, "To illustrate to what extent Hardy and Littlewood in the course of the years came to be considered as the leaders of recent English mathematical research, I may report what a…” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood

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Places John Edensor Littlewood is documented in

Great Britain1 presence · 1947London1 presence · 1900
Rochester, Kent1 presence · 1885

Other places tied to John Edensor Littlewood in the record

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1892year
Wynberg, Cape Townmentioned “In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1892year
South Africamentioned “In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1903year
University of Cambridgementioned “In 1903, Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1903year
Trinity College, Cambridgementioned “In 1903, Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
October 1907month
School of Mathematics, University of Manchestermentioned “From October 1907 to June 1910, he worked as a Richardson Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
October 1910month
Cambridgementioned “He returned to Cambridge in October 1910, where he remained for the rest of his career.” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood
1941year
United Statesmentioned “Spencer reported that in 1941 when he (Spencer) was about to get on the boat that would take him home to the United States, Littlewood reminded him: "n, n alpha, n beta!" (referring to Littlewood's conjecture).” source: Wikipedia: John Edensor Littlewood

Documented at the same place, the same year

Rudyard KiplingEngland · 1900Raymond ChandlerEngland · 1900Natsume SōsekiEngland · 1900Frances Hodgson BurnettEngland · 1900Ernest JonesEngland · 1900

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