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Archibald Read Richardson FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.

Career

Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Littlewood–Richardson rule for their multiplication.

Awards and honours

Richardson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 March 1946.

See also

• Quasideterminant

References

1. ^ Turnbull, H. W. (1955). "Archibald Read Richardson 1881-1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 223–226. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0016. S2CID 73212118.
2. Turnbull, H. W. (1956). "Archibald Read Richardson". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s1-31 (3): 376–384. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-31.3.376.
3. Turnbull, H. W. (2008). "Archibald R. Richardson". Edinburgh Mathematical Notes. 40: 31–32. doi:10.1017/S0950184300000343.
4. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Archibald Read Richardson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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