Douglas Northcott

Douglas Geoffrey Northcott
Born
Douglas Geoffrey Robertson

(1916-12-31)31 December 1916
Kensington, London, England
Died8 April 2005(2005-04-08) (aged 88)
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forIdeal theory
Spouse
Rose Hilda Austin
(m. 1949; died 1992)
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Tauberian theorems for functions taking values in Banach spaces  (1949)
Doctoral advisorFrank Smithies

Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS (31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005) was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.