Background
Felix Arscott was born in 1922 in Greenwich to Leonard Charles Arscott and Gladys Arscott (née Williams), with one sister Faith Muriel (1915–1987).
Felix Arscott was born in 1922 in Greenwich to Leonard Charles Arscott and Gladys Arscott (née Williams), with one sister Faith Muriel (1915–1987).
Doctor Arscott was the founding head of the Applied Mathematics department at University of Manitoba from 1974 through 1986 and was named Professor Emeritus in 1995. Professor Arscott was described as an expert in the "higher special functions". He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, becoming a commissioned officer
He obtained an honours degree in mathematics from the University of London by private study.
After obtaining his M. Sc in 1951, he left the United Kingdom to teach mathematics at Makerere University in East Africa. Arscott obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of London in 1956 with the dissertation titled Ellipsoidal Harmonics and Ellipsoidal Wave Functions.
He held positions at Aberdeen, Battersea College of Technology (later the University of Surrey), and the University of Reading. By 1972, he had supervised six Doctor of Philosophy theses, and published 22 papers.
He was a founding Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
