William John Ellison (1943 - 16 March 2022) was a British mathematician who worked on number theory.
Ellison studied at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his bachelor's degree and then, after spending the academic year 1969/70 at the University of Michigan, his PhD in 1970 under John Cassels with thesis Waring's and Hilbert's 17th Problems. Subsequently, he became a postdoc at the University of Bordeaux. In 1972 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize and a Lester Randolph Ford Award for his article "Waring's Problem“, an exposition of Waring's problem
Selected works
- with Fern Ellison: Prime Numbers (Les nombres premiers, 1975). Wiley, New York 1985, ISBN 0-471-8265-3-7
- with Fern Ellison: Zahlentheorie In: Jean Dieudonné (ed.): Geschichte der Mathematik 1700 bis 1900 (Abrege d'histoire des mathematiques 1700–1900, 1978). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1985, online at archive.org, pp. 171–358, ISBN 3-528-08443-X
References
- Sarah Krichen; CéCédille (9 July 2022). "Hommage à William Ellison – wikipédien de la Cubale bordelaise". wikimedia.fr (in French). Wikimédia France. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- William J. Ellison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Ellison, W. J. (1971). "Waring's problem". Amer. Math. Monthly. 78 (1): 10–36. doi:10.2307/2317482. JSTOR 2317482.