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John (Jack) Todd

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Todd retired from the faculty, and in May, 2001 was honored by a symposium at Caltech in honor of his 90th birthday. He was called Jack Todd by all who knew him. He died at his home in Pasadena, California on June 21, 2007.
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after winning a scholarship. In his final year at the College he only studied maths as a result of his desire to become an engineer. He received his BSc degree from
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1933-1937, and was an invited speaker at the 1936 ICM in Oslo on "Transfinite Superpositions of Absolutely Continuous Functions"
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1941-1945. One of Todd's greatest achievements was the preservation of the
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in London for the years 1937–1939 (and again 1945–1947), where he met
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In 1945 the Todds emigrated to the United States and worked for the
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
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1940-1941. As part of the war effort, he had worked for the
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John Todd (disambiguation)

numerical analysis
County Down
Belfast
Methodist College Belfast
Queen's University
St. John's College
Cambridge University
J. E. Littlewood
Queen's University Belfast
King's College
Olga Taussky
Methodist College Belfast
British Admiralty
Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
National Bureau of Standards
California Institute of Technology


"John Todd"
1936 ICM in Oslo
Congrès International Des Mathématiciens Oslo 1936
"Professor John Todd"
Caltech press release
Biography from University of St. Andrews archive
Categories
1911 births
2007 deaths
20th-century mathematicians from Northern Ireland

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