Birth Date: | 1881 8, df=y |
Fields: | Mathematics |
Known For: | Littlewood–Richardson rule |
Awards: | FRS (1946)[1] |
Archibald Read Richardson FRS[1] (21 August 1881 - 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.[2] [3]
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.
Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] on 21 March 1946.