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ALBERT CYRIL OFFORD, FRS, 1906–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2005

W. K. HAYMAN
W. K. HAYMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Cyril Offord was one of the most distinguished and certainly the most senior of British mathematical analysts. With J. E. Littlewood, he pioneered the subject of probabilistic analysis by studying the typical behaviour of the zeros of a random polynomial with real coefficients, or an entire function.

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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 933 - 946
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© The London Mathematical Society 2005