1. Norman Arthur Routledge was a British mathematician and schoolteacher.
13 Facts About Norman Routledge
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Norman Routledge was a personal friend of fellow mathematician Alan Turing.
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Norman Routledge was born near Alexandra Park, north London, England.
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Norman Routledge was about to begin secondary education at Glendale County School, Wood Green, in 1939, when the outbreak of World War II intervened.
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In 1946 Routledge matriculated with a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics.
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Norman Routledge was supervised by Albert Ingham and Philip Hall.
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Norman Routledge gained a first class degree in 1949 and went on to research in recursion theory.
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Norman Routledge taught as a scientific officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, RAE Farnborough.
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Norman Routledge went on to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
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Norman Routledge did college undergraduate teaching, and after a time was a director of studies.
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Norman Routledge taught mathematics at the school for some years and was later a housemaster.
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Norman Routledge was considered an inspirational teacher, teaching among other Etonians Simon P Norton, Timothy Gowers and Stephen Wolfram.
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Norman Routledge was a friend of the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, whom he met after World War II, when Turing was in Cambridge to study physiology.