Claude Ambrose Rogers' papers
- Rogers, Claude Ambrose (1920-2005)
- Date:
- 1944-1953
- Reference:
- PP/ROG/F
- Part of:
- Rogers, Sir Leonard
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Papers of Mathematician Claude Ambrose Rogers (1920-2005), Sir Leonard Rogers' son. Contains; letters, diaries, papers and exam booklets.
Publication/Creation
1944-1953
Physical description
Five files
Contributors
Biographical note
Claude Ambrose Rogers was born in Cambridge in 1920. He entered University College London in 1938 to study mathematics and graduated in 1941. He joined the Applied Ballistics Branch of the Ministry of Supply in 1940, where he worked until 1945. Ambrose's PhD research was at Birkbeck College. His first paper was a on linear transformations of convergent series, his substantive early work was on the geometry of numbers. Later, Rogers became known for his very wide interests in mathematics, including geometry of numbers, also Hausdorff measures, convexity and analytic sets. Ambrose was married in 1952 to Joan North, and they had two daughters, Jane and Petra. (Information from The Royal Society Biographical Memoirs).