Category:Arthur Lee Dixon (nonfiction)

Arthur Lee Dixon FRS (27 November 1867 — 20 February 1955) was a British mathematician and holder of the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.[2][3]

Early life and education

Dixon was born on 27 November 1867 in Pickering, North Riding of Yorkshire to G.T. Dixon, and was the younger brother of Alfred Cardew Dixon. From 1879 to 1885 he studied at Kingswood School, before matriculating at Worcester College, Oxford as a scholar to study mathematics.

Academic career

Dixon became a Fellow of Merton College in 1891, and Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics in 1922

His research was focused on algebra and its application to geometry, elliptic functions, and hyperelliptic functions. From 1908 onwards he published a series of papers on algebraic eliminants. He also published a dozen joint papers with Bill Ferrar on analytic number theory.

Dixon was the last mathematical professor at Oxford to hold a life tenure, and although he was not particularly noted for his mathematical innovations he did publish many papers on analytic number theory and the application of algebra to geometry, elliptic functions and hyperelliptic functions.

• [Arthur Lee Dixon] @ Wikipedia