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Alexander Oppenheim

1903–1997

Nationality
United Kingdom
Occupation
mathematician

Sir Alexander Oppenheim, OBE, PMN, FRSE (4 February 1903 – 13 December 1997) was a British mathematician and university administrator.

Incarceration history

  1. Changi Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Sir Alexander Oppenheim, OBE, PMN, FRSE (4 February 1903 – 13 December 1997) was a British mathematician and university administrator. In Diophantine approximation and the theory of quadratic forms, he proposed the Oppenheim conjecture.