Claude Ambrose Rogers. 1 November 1920 — 5 December 2005

Falconer, Kenneth, Gruber, Peter M., Ostaszewski, Adam ORCID: 0000-0003-2630-8663 and Stuart, Trevor (2015) Claude Ambrose Rogers. 1 November 1920 — 5 December 2005. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 61. pp. 403-435. ISSN 0080-4606

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Claude Ambrose Rogers and his identical twin brother, Stephen Clifford, were born in Cambridge in 1920 and came from a long scientific heritage. Their great-great-grandfather, Davies Gilbert, was President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830; their father was a Fellow of the Society and distinguished for his work in tropical medicine. After attending boarding school at Berkhamsted with his twin brother from the age of 8 years, Ambrose, who had developed very different scientific interests from those of his father, entered University College London in 1938 to study mathematics. He completed the course in 1940 and graduated in 1941 with first-class honours, by which time the UK had been at war with Germany for two years. He joined the Applied Ballistics Branch of the Ministry of Supply in 1940, where he worked until 1945, apparently on calculations using radar data to direct anti-aircraft fire. However, this did not lead to research interests in applied mathematics, but rather to several areas of pure mathematics. Ambrose's PhD research was at Birkbeck College, London, under the supervision of L. S. Bosanquet and R. G. Cooke, his first paper being on the subject of geometry of numbers. Later, Rogers became known for his very wide interests in mathematics, including not only geometry of numbers but also Hausdorff measures, convexity and analytic sets, as described in this memoir. Ambrose was married in 1952 to Joan North, and they had two daughters, Jane and Petra, to form a happy family.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Authors
Divisions:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2015 13:51
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2024 03:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63494

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