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Archibald Read Richardson
Born (1881-08-21)21 August 1881
Died 4 November 1954(1954-11-04) (aged 73)
Known for Littlewood–Richardson rule
Awards FRS (1946)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics

Archibald Read Richardson FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.

Career

Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Littlewood–Richardson rule for their multiplication.

Awards and honours

Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 March 1946.

See also

  • Quasideterminant
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