Edward Charles Titchmarsh
# Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (June 1, 1899 – January 18, 1963) was a leading British mathematician.

## Education

Titchmarsh was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.

## Career

Titchmarsh was known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He wrote several classic books in these areas; his book on the Riemann zeta-function was reissued in an edition edited by Roger Heath-Brown.

Titchmarsh was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963. He was a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in 1954 in Amsterdam.

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1935-1947.

## Awards

* Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931
* De Morgan Medal, 1953
* Sylvester Medal, 1955
* Berwick Prize winner, 1956

## Publications

* The Zeta-Function of Riemann (1930);
* Introduction to the Theory of Fourier Integrals (1937) 2nd. edition(1939) 2nd. edition (1948);
* The Theory of Functions (1932);
* Mathematics for the General Reader (1948);
* The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (1951); 2nd edition, revised by D. R. Heath-Brown (1986)
* Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part I (1946) 2nd. edition (1962);
* Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-order Differential Equations. Part II (1958);
