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Douglas Northcott (Douglas Geoffrey Robertson) was born on 31 December, 1916 in Kensington, London, England, is a British mathematician. Discover Douglas Northcott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?
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Douglas Geoffrey Robertson |
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| Age |
88 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
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31 December, 1916 |
| Birthday |
31 December |
| Birthplace |
Kensington, London, England |
| Date of death |
8 April, 2005 |
| Died Place |
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England |
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London, England
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Douglas Northcott Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Douglas Northcott's Wife?
His wife is Rose Hilda Austin (m. 1949-1992)
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Rose Hilda Austin (m. 1949-1992) |
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Douglas Northcott Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Douglas Northcott worth at the age of 88 years old? Douglas Northcott’s income source is mostly from being a successful mathematician. He is from London, England. We have estimated Douglas Northcott's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS (31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005) was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.
Northcott was born Douglas Geoffrey Robertson in Kensington on 31 December 1916 to Clara Freda (née Behl) (1894–1958) and her first husband Geoffrey Douglas Spence Robertson (1894–1978).
His mother remarried in 1919 to Arthur Hugh Kynaston Northcott (1887–1952).
In 1935, he legally adopted his step-father's surname.
He was educated in London, then at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge, where he started research under the supervision of G.H. Hardy.
His work was interrupted by active service during World War II.
Captured at Singapore, he survived his time as a prisoner of war in Japan, and returned to Cambridge at the end of the war.
Back at Cambridge, he published his dissertation "Abstract Tauberian theorems with applications to power series and Hilbert series ".
He then turned to algebra under the influence of Emil Artin, whom he had met while visiting Princeton University.
He became a Research Fellow of St John's College in 1948.
In 1949, he proved an important result in the theory of heights, namely that there are only finitely many algebraic numbers of bounded degree and bounded height.
In analogy to this result, a set of algebraic numbers is said to satisfy the Northcott property if there are only finitely many elements of bounded height.
In 1949, at Cambridge, Northcott married Rose Hilda Austin (1917-1992), with two daughters, Anne Patricia (born 1950) and Pamela Rose (1952-1992).
In 1952, he moved to the Town Trust Chair of Pure Mathematics at Sheffield University.
Northcott was awarded the London Mathematical Society Junior Berwick Prize in 1953 and served as LMS Vice-President during 1968-69.
In 1954, Douglas Northcott and David Rees introduced in a joint paper the Northcott-Rees theory of reductions and integral closures, which has subsequently been influential in commutative algebra.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961.
He remained at Sheffield until his retirement in 1982, also serving as Head of Department and Dean of Pure Science.
