Theodore William Chaundy (19 January 1889 – 14 April 1966) was an English mathematician who introduced Burchnall–Chaundy theory.

Chaundy was born to widowed businessman John Chaundy and his second wife Sarah Pates in their shop-cum-home at 49 Broad Street in Oxford. John had eight children, one of whom died as a toddler, with his late first wife and died barely a year after Chaundy was born. The Chaundy home along Broad Street has since been demolished.^[1]

Chaundy attended Oxford High School for Boys and read mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford on a scholarship. In 1912 he became a lecturer at Oxford and later named a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He married Hilda Weston Dott (1890–1986) in 1920. They had five children and thirteen grandchildren.^[1]

Publications

• Chaundy, Theodore (1935). The differential calculus. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Chaundy, T. W.; Barrett, P. R.; Batey, Charles (1954). The printing of mathematics. Aids for authors and editors and rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780608111261. MR 0062667.
• Chaundy, T. W. (1969). McLeod, J. Bryce (ed.). Elementary differential equations. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-853142-5. MR 0257444.

References

Sources

• Ferrar, W. L. (1966), "Theodore William Chaundy", Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Second Series, 41: 755–756, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-41.1.755, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0197263
• Papers of Theodore William Chaundy at the National Archives
• Archive of Theodore William Chaundy at the Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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