John Charles Burkill facts for kids
John Charles Burkill FRS (1 February 1900, Holt, Norfolk, England – 6 April 1993, Sheffield, England) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Burkill was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973. His doctoral students include Frederick Gehring.
Private life
He married Margareta Burkill who has been born in Germany but she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her father was German and her mother was Russian. He and Margareta had three children of their own but Margareta arranged for hundreds of refugee children to come to Britain and some joined their household. Two are noted academics.
Selected publications
- The Lebesgue Integral, Cambridge University Press 1951 2004 pbk edition
- The Theory of ordinary differential equations, Interscience, Oliver and Boyd 1956
- Mathematical Scholarship Problems, with H. M. Cundy, Cambridge University Press 1961
- First course in mathematical analysis, Cambridge University Press 1962; reprint of 1978 pbk edition
- A second course in mathematical analysis, with Harry Burkill, Cambridge University Press, 1970; 1980 1st pbk edition; 2002 pbk edition
