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Arthur Read

was born 104 years ago

12 October 1920

Arthur Hinton Read was brought up in St Andrews, worked at Bletchley Park during World War II and then joined the staff in the St Andrews University Mathematics Department. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Harvard for studies supervised by Ahlfors. He died in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Read/