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Papers

Miscellaneous group photographs, all including Davenport.

Includes one print of Davenport, P. Erdös and L.J. Mordell (n.d.), one of `Professor Mordell's Seminar' (1938) and one of Davenport, Besicovitch and Littlewood (1967).

Correspondence 1954 is re P. Erdös.

(Bibliog. 36).

4pp. ms. draft (Erdös's hand).

G.172: 1961. Correspondence on proposed 'Compilation of a Topical History of the Theory of Numbers'. Includes draft proposal, report (not favourable) of American Mathematical Society Committee, Davenport's draft comments, etc.
G.173: 1963. Includes 6pp. ms. note by Davenport, 'On Weyl's criterion for uniform distribution' later published jointly with LeVeque and Erdös (Bibliog. 142) and a related note by LeVeque on Weyl's criterion.

(Bibliog. 92).

6pp. typescript and ms. draft.

(Bibliog. 93).

8pp. photocopy of typescript draft.

(Bibliog. 101).

16pp. photocopy of typescript draft.

Although Erdös and Davenport collaborated on many publications 1936-63, the surviving correspondence is very meagre and is mainly from Erdös on various mathematical discoveries.

Correspondence 1960 is enquiry re Erdös's problem on sets of congruences.