Few number theorists doubt that the Riemann hypothesis is true ( it is said that Atle Selberg was once a sceptic, and J. E. Littlewood always was ).

Joan Littlewood, the English actress and director who was active from the 1930s to 1970s, made extensive use of improv in developing plays for performance.

He was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize in mathematical analysis in 1964 for his paper " On a conjecture by Littlewood and idempotent measures ", and lends his name to the Cohen-Hewitt factorization theorem.

The auction was held by Bearne's Auctioneers ( now Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood ) at Westpoint Arena in Exeter.

This was a major factor in the development of number theory as a system of conjectures ; examples are the first and second Hardy – Littlewood conjectures.

John Edensor Littlewood ( 9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977 ) was a British mathematician, best known for the results achieved in collaboration with G. H. Hardy.

Littlewood was born in Rochester in Kent.

John Edensor Littlewood was born in 1885, the son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Ackland.

His unusual middle name came was the maiden name of his great-great-grandmother Sarah Edensor, who married Thomas Littlewood.

Spencer reported that in 1941 when he ( Spencer ) was about to get on the boat that would take him home to the United States, Littlewood reminded him: " n, n alpha, n beta!

There is a story ( related in the Miscellany ) that at a conference Littlewood met a German mathematician who said he was most interested to discover that Littlewood really existed, as he had always assumed that Littlewood was a name used by Hardy for lesser work which he did not want to put out under his own name ; Littlewood apparently roared with laughter.

He was married to theatre director Joan Littlewood, and later to American folksinger Peggy Seeger.

This was Joan Littlewood who became Miller's wife and work partner.

In 1940 a performance of The Last Edition – a ' living newspaper ' – was halted by the police and Miller and Littlewood were bound over for two years for ' breach of the peace '.

Littlewood was the sole producer and MacColl the dramaturge, art director, and resident dramatist.

Joan Maud Littlewood ( 6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002 ) was an English theatre director, noted for her work in developing the left-wing Theatre Workshop.

He had been orphaned as a baby and been brought up by an aunt whose surname was Askham, but he had been born Colin Henry Littlewood.

John Littlewood was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1931, the fourth of his eleven siblings.

Barclay James Littlewood ( born 1978 in Huddersfield ) is a British entrepreneur who sells essays and other academic work over the internet to students in the UK, US and Western Europe.

Hardy and Littlewood showed that all sufficiently large numbers are the sum of at most 19 fourth powers.

British mathematician J. E. Littlewood suggested that individuals should statistically expect one-in-a-million events (" miracles ") to happen to them at the rate of about one per month.

Main character at David Leavitt The Indian Clerk ( 2007 ), which depicts his Cambridge years and the relationship with John Edensor Littlewood and Ramanujan.

However, the link between the Riemann hypothesis and the Prime Number Theorem had been known before in Continental Europe, and Littlewood also wrote later in his book A mathematician ’ s miscellany that his actually only rediscovered result did not shed a bright light on the isolated state of British mathematics at the time.

Littlewood died, in 2002, of natural causes at the age of 87 in the London flat of Peter Rankin, her UK base for the previous 23 years.

While at Unity he was talent spotted by Joan Littlewood and so joined Theatre Workshop.

According to reports, Littlewood fell to the ground during the disagreement which it was alleged had been prompted by Littlewood's claim that a number of Liberal Democrat seats would be at risk from the Conservatives at the next election.

While at Sheffield University, Littlewood won three university tournaments and the Sheffield Championship.

Later, Littlewood played at two Olympiads, several Anglo-Dutch matches, and European and World Seniors.

John Littlewood was the outright winner of the British Senior Chess Championship in 2006 and finished equal first in 2008, when the contest was held at Liverpool ’ s St. George ’ s Hall.

* John Littlewood vs Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings Chess Congress 1961

Littlewood, who came from Cambridge in Chapman's final year at Manchester.

Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million.

It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T ' Be and going on to make her film debut in 1962 in Sparrers Can't Sing.

After training as a barrister at Gray's Inn, Littlewood set up his operation in 2003, based in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire.

After spending some time with Joan Littlewood ’ s ‘ Theatre Workshop ’ company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, he was cast in the Granada television series, The Younger Generation in 1961 and had a musical, Solo, produced in 1962 at Cheltenham.

Littlewood, Derek, Stockwell, Peter.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

* Littlewood, Roland and Maurice Lipsedge ( 1989 ) Aliens and Alienists: ethnic minorities and psychiatry, London, Unwin.

In 1955, Littlewood directed, and took the leading role, in the London premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children.

Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild ( London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 ) For a period of years she also was the lover of Isabelle Kemp, an heiress to a New York drug-store and real-estate fortune.

Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild ( London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 ) Among her clients were the Duchess of Windsor, automotive heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy, actress Gertrude Lawrence, actress Ina Claire, and prominent others.

* Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild ( London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 ).

It was directed in London by Joan Littlewood in 1961, but Goldman believed he " never got the play right " and forbade further productions or publication of the script.

In 1959 Wharton adopted the name Murray and moved into an acting career with the Theatre Workshop company in Stratford, East London, under the direction of the theatre director Joan Littlewood.