John Williamson (mathematician)

John Williamson (23 May 1901 – 1949) was a Scottish mathematician who worked in the fields of algebra, invariant theory, and linear algebra. Among other contributions, he is known for the Williamson construction of Hadamard matrices. Williamson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in 1922. Awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship in 1925, he studied at the University of Chicago under the direction of L. E. Dickson and E. H. Moore, receiving the Ph.D. in 1927. He held a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Professorship in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.

See also

Williamson conjecture

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1901 births

1949 deaths

Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

Johns Hopkins University faculty

University of Chicago fellows

Academics of the University of St Andrews

Matrices

20th-century Scottish mathematicians