Background
CASSELS, John William Scott was born on July 11, 1922 in Durham City. Son of John William Cassels and Muriel Speakman Cassels (nee Lobjoit).
CASSELS, John William Scott was born on July 11, 1922 in Durham City. Son of John William Cassels and Muriel Speakman Cassels (nee Lobjoit).
Neville’s Cross Council School, Durham, George Heriots School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities.
Lecturer, Manitoba Chester University 1949-1950, Cambridge University 1950-1965. Reader in Arithmetic. Cambridge University 1965-1967.
Sadleirian Professor, of Pure Mathematics, Cam bridge University 1967-1984.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1949. Puhli cations: An Introduction to Diophantine Approximations 1957, An Introduction to the Geometry of Numbers 1959, Rational Quadratic Form* 1979, Economics for Mathematicians 1981, Local Fields 1986.
Leisun interests: The Higher Arithmetic, gardening.
Married Constance Mabel Senior in 1949.