Harold Davenport

thumb|Harold Davenport, 1968 Harold Davenport (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Quotes Mathematicians are extremely lucky, they are paid for doing what they would by nature have to do anyway. One should not have a non-teaching fellowship too long, there comes a time when one must make a contribution to society. Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. Harold Davenport, ‎Bryan John Birch, ‎Heini Halberstam (1977), The collected works of Harold Davenport. p. xviii Quotes about Harold Davenport Conway made a fortuitous match for a Ph.D. adviser in Harold Davenport, considered the leader of the internationally respected British school of number theory. And while politically and socially speaking Conway was a radical, Davenport was a conservative. “All changes are for the worse,” he'd say. And looking back upon his career and his charges, he said: “I had 2 very good students. Baker”—Alan Baker, later a Fields Medalist—“to whom I would give a problem and he would return with a very good solution. And Conway, to whom I would give a problem and he would return with a very good solution to another problem.” Siobhan Roberts Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway https://books.google.com/books?id=LC52BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT60 14 July 2015 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-62040-594-9 60 External links Category:1969 deaths Category:Mathematicians from England Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:1907 births