Harold Davenport
was born 101 years ago
30th October 1907

Davenport worked on number theory, in particular the geometry of numbers, Diophantine approximation and the analytic theory of numbers. He wrote a number of important textbooks and monographs including The higher arithmetic (1952)

Find out more at:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Davenport.html