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DR. A. C. OFFORD has been appointed to the chair of mathematics in the Newcastle Division of the University of Durham. Dr. Offord was born in 1906, and was educated at University College, London, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship. He has also been a lecturer at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He joined the Mathematics Department at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1941. His published work includes papers on the theory of divergent series, Fourier transforms, trigonometric intervals and the application of methods of the theory of probability to algebraic equations; he has also done work on integral functions.
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University of Durham: Appointments. Nature 156, 202 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156202a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156202a0