Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21908

    Portrait of Klaus Freidrich Roth

    Date
    1971
    Sitter
    Klaus Friedrich Roth (1925 - 2015, British) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 207mm
    width (print): 157mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Klaus Freidrich Roth looking off to the viewers right. His hair is parted on the right and he is wearing dark framed spectacles. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket, white shirt and tie.

    Signed ‘Argent’ lower right-hand corner. Inscribed verso ‘ROTH, KLAUS FRIEDRICH FRS 1960. Box 3. Professor K. F. Roth FRS. Rec’d 9.6.71.’ Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London’ and ‘Copyright: Photograph by GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. Telephone: 01. 584.0269 & 5431. The Reference No. of this print is GRS 5900/A.’

    Klaus Freidrich Roth (1925-2015) German-born British mathematician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960. He was awarded the Sylvester Medal in 1991 for his many contributions to number theory and in particular his solution of the famous problem concerning approximating algebraic numbers by rationals.
    Object history
    Used in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. (2017) (63): 487–525.
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