Edward Linfoot
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Edward Linfoot's Degrees
- Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Hubert Linfoot was a British mathematician, primarily known for his work on optics, but also noted for his work in pure mathematics. Early life and career Edward Linfoot was born in Sheffield, England, in 1905. He was the eldest child of George Edward Linfoot, a violinist and mathematician, and George's wife Laura, née Clayton. After attending King Edward VII School he won a scholarship to Balliol College at the University of Oxford.
Edward Linfoot's Published Works
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Published Works
- Principles of Optics (1961) (3082)
- An Informational Measure of Correlation (1957) (197)
- On the assessment of optical images (1955) (171)
- Diffraction Images in Systems with an Annular Aperture (1953) (129)
- Phase Distribution near Focus in an Aberration-free Diffraction Image (1956) (102)
- Fourier Methods in Optical Image Evaluation (1964) (91)
- Spherical aberration and the information content of optical images (1957) (86)
- Information Theory and Optical Images (1955) (66)
- ON THE IMAGINARY QUADRATIC CORPORA OF CLASS-NUMBER ONE (1934) (61)
- Recent Advances In Optics (1955) (58)
- Transmission factors and optical design (1956) (58)
- On a problem in the additive theory of numbers (1929) (38)
- An Improved Type of Schmidt Camera (1945) (21)
- Quality Evaluations of Optical Systems (1958) (18)
- A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test (1946) (13)
- The Schmidt-Cassegrain Systems and their Application to Astronomical Photography (1944) (13)
- The Theory of the Foucault Test (1944) (13)
- On the Corrector Plates of Schmidt Cameras (1949) (11)
- GENERALIZED MEANS AND THE SUMMABILITY OF FOURIER SERIES (1931) (11)
- Equivalent Quantum Efficiency and the Information Content of Photographic Images (1961) (11)
- An application of the Schmidt principle to microscopy (1938) (10)
- On the interpretation of the Foucault test (1948) (8)
- On the Theory of the Zonal Foucault Test (1948) (8)
- Image Quality and Optical Resolution (1957) (8)
- On the Optics of the Schmidt Camera (1949) (7)
- Contrast Transmission Functions at Low Spatial Frequencies (1959) (7)
- Resolving Power and Information (1956) (7)
- Optical image evaluation from the standpoint of communication theory (1958) (7)
- On the zernike phase-contrast test (1946) (7)
- Phase Difference Microscopy (1945) (7)
- Hamilton's Theory (1970) (6)
- On Telescopic Star Images (1952) (6)
- ON A SET OF LINEAR EQUATIONS (1939) (6)
- A Sufficiency Condition for Poisson's Formula (5)
- On the Zero Order Summability of Fourier Series (1931) (5)
- On Some Optical Systems Employing Aspherical Surfaces (1943) (5)
- Achromatized plate-mirror systems (1945) (4)
- On a probelm in the additive theory of numbers. (Second paper). (1931) (4)
- On the Aberrations of the Field-Flattened Schmidt Camera (1949) (4)
- Random Wave-Front Perturbations and Telescopic Star Images (1972) (4)
- Information Theory and Photographic Images (1959) (3)
- Convoluted Spot Diagrams and the Quality Evaluation of Photographic Images (1962) (3)
- Astigmatism under the Foucault Test (1945) (3)
- On a problem in the additive theory of numbers (1932) (3)
- Contrast Transmission and the Image Evaluation Problem (1960) (3)
- Note on an Asymptotic Formula (1934) (2)
- On decentred aspheric plates (1946) (2)
- Wave-theoretic and Ray-theoretic Contrast Transmission Functions (1960) (2)
- Modern developments in telescope optics (1955) (2)
- Noise, Aberrations, and the Information Content of Optical Images (1956) (1)
- Reports on the Progress of Astronomy Some Recent Applications of Optics to Astronomy (1948) (1)
- Focal Tolerances and Best Focal Setting for Model Photographic Images with Primary Spherical Aberration (1961) (1)
- Generalization of Two Theorems of H. Bohr (1928) (1)
- On Phase-Contrast Testing with a Slit Source (1950) (0)
- A review of: “La structure et l'evolution de l'univers (1960) (0)
- On the Best Fine-correction of Photographic Lenses with 2-term Spherical Aberration (1963) (0)
- Coma Tolerances for Photographic Star Images (1968) (0)
- Corrigenda: A Sufficiency Condition for Poisson's Formula* (1931) (0)
- Informational Considerations in the Design of Astonomical Spectrographs (1960) (0)
- Recent Advances in Optics (G. LAUTZ) (1957) (0)
- On the Law of Large Numbers (0)
- ON FOURIER SERIES SATISFYING MIXED CONDITIONS (1938) (0)
- The London Conference on Optical Instruments (1950) (0)
- The ‘Wave Band’ Theory of Wireless Transmission. (1930) (0)
- Error Balancing in fast Schmidt Cameras (1951) (0)
- A Remark on Bohr‐Fourier Series (1929) (0)
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