John burkill biography

John Charles BurkillFRS^[1] (1 February 1900 – 6 April 1993) was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral.

Career

Burkill was born in Holt, Norfolk, and educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Smith's Prize.^[2] He became a research fellow at Trinity in 1922, and two years later was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics at Liverpool University.^[2] In 1929, he returned to Cambridge to take up a position as Reader in Mathematical Analysis, as a fellow not of Trinity but of Peterhouse.^[3] In 1948, he won the Adams Prize, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.^[1][3][4] He was Master of Peterhouse from 1968 to 1973.

His doctoral students included Frederick Gehring.

Private life

In 1928 he married Margareta Braun, who was born in Germany but educated at Newnham College, Cambrid