Harold Davenport

Harold Davenport (30 October 1907 - 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. He was born in Huncoat, Lancashire. He was educated at Accrington Grammar School, the University of Manchester, where he graduated in 1927, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a research student of J. E. Littlewood, working on the question of the distribution of quadratic residues.

Books

• The higher arithmetic (1952)
• Analytic methods for Diophantine equations and Diophantine inequalities (1962)
• Multiplicative number theory (1967).