He was educated first at
Christ's Hospital, where he won the Thompson Gold Medal for mathematics, and later at
King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 and awarded its
Sylvester Medal in 1961. He was President of the
London Mathematical Society from 1955–1957, and was awarded its
Berwick Prize in 1958 and
De Morgan Medal in 1965. ==Publications==