Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of HAROLD DAVENPORT FRS; (1907 - 1969)

Heilbronn, a German-Jewish mathematician, was a life-long friend of Davenport, a colleague at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at University College, London, and a collaborator on many papers. When Heilbronn was forced to leave Göttingen in 1933, Davenport seems to have initiated the moves to help him find a post in Britain, and when he was temporarily interned as an `enemy alien' in the Isle of Man in 1940, it was Davenport whom Gertrud Heilbronn (mother of Hans) appointed to be in charge of her affairs (G.125 and see also G.110 for an appeal by G.H. Hardy on behalf of Heilbronn). A fuller account of Heilbronn's career, including his friendship with Davenport, can be found in the Memoir by J.W.S. Cassels and A. Fröhlich (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 22, 1976), an offprint of which is included at G.123.

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