The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the

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History

In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from

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, donated £150 to Owens College (as the

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was then called) for the teaching of evening classes and a further £3000 for the development of natural sciences at the college. From 1877 this supported the Fielden Lecturer, subsequently to become the Fielden Reader with the appointment of L. J. Mordell in 1922 and then Fielden Professor in 1923.

Alex Wilkie Alex James Wilkie FRS (born 1948 in Northampton) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of P ...

FRS was appointed to the post in 2007.

Holders

Previous holders of the Fielden Chair (and lectureship) are: * A. T. Bentley (1876–1880) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics * J. E. A. Steggall (1880–1883) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics * R. F. Gwyther (1883–1907) Lecturer in Mathematics * F. T. Swanwick (1907–1912) Lecturer in Mathematics * H. R. Hasse (1912–1918) Lecturer in Mathematics *

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(1920–1922) Lecturer in Mathematics *

Louis Mordell Louis Joel Mordell (28 January 1888 – 12 March 1972) was an American-born British mathematician, known for his research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction. Education Morde ...

(1923–1945) *

Max Newman Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984), generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operatio ...

(1945–1964) *

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(1964–1971) *

Ian G. Macdonald Ian Grant Macdonald (11 October 1928 – 8 August 2023) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to symmetric functions, special functions, Lie algebra theory and other aspects of algebra, algebraic combinatorics, and combinator ...

(1972–1976) * Norman Blackburn (1978–1994) * Mark Pollicott (1996–2004) *

(2007–) *

Radha Kessar Radha Kessar is an Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups. She holds the Fielden Chair in Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and in 2009 won the Berwick Prize of the London Mathe ...

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Related chairs

The other endowed chairs in mathematics at the

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are the

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, the Sir Horace Lamb Chair and the

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References

Professorships in mathematics Mathematics education in the United Kingdom Professorships at the University of Manchester