Mathematician:Stanley Skewes

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Mathematician

South African mathematician, best known for his discovery of the Skewes' number in $1933$.

One of John Edensor Littlewood's students at Cambridge University.


Nationality

South African


History

  • Born: 1899
  • Died: 1988


Theorems and Definitions

Definitions of concepts named for Stanley Skewes can be found here.


Publications

  • 1933: On the difference $\pi \left({x}\right) − \operatorname {Li} \left({x}\right)$ (I) (J. London Math. Soc. Vol. 8, no. 4: pp. 277 – 283)
  • 1955: On the difference $\pi \left({x}\right) − \operatorname {Li} \left({x}\right)$ (II) (Proc. London Math. Soc. Ser. 3 Vol. 5, no. 17: pp. 48 – 70)


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