Alexander Oppenheim

Sir Alexander Oppenheim, OBE FRSE Knight Bachelor PMN (4 February 1903– 13 December 1997) was a British mathematician and philanthropist. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Sir Sydney Caine, the director of The London School of Economics, and a former colleague of Oppenheim's in Malaysia, called him "a great mathematician, and an even greater humanitarian." Sir Oppenheim was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and received foreign honors from several other monarchies and institutions. Oppenheim was born on 4 February 1903 in Salford, England. He attended Manchester Grammar School. Oppenheim taught himself mathematics from an early age, and first began solving individual Diophantine equations in his...