John Williamson (mathematician)

John Williamson
Born(1901-05-23)23 May 1901
Kinross, Scotland
Died1949 (1950)
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh, University of Chicago
Known forWilliamson construction of Hadamard matrices
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

John Williamson (23 May 1901 – 1949) was a Scottish mathematician who worked in the fields of algebra, invariant theory, and linear algebra. Among other contributions, he is known for the Williamson construction of Hadamard matrices.[1] Williamson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in 1922. Awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship in 1925, he studied at the University of Chicago under the direction of L. E. Dickson and E. H. Moore, receiving the Ph.D. in 1927. He held a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Professorship in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.

  1. ^ Williamson, J. (1947). "Note on Hadamard's determinant theorem". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (6): 608–613. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1947-08853-4. MR 0020538.