Archibald Read Richardson

{{Short description|British mathematician}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1881|8|21}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1954|11|4|1881|8|21}}

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| fields = Mathematics

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| known_for = Littlewood–Richardson rule

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| awards = FRS (1946){{Cite journal | last1 = Turnbull | first1 = H. W. | author-link1 = Herbert Turnbull| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1955.0016 | title = Archibald Read Richardson 1881-1954 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 1 | pages = 223–226 | year = 1955 | s2cid = 73212118 }}

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}}Archibald Read Richardson FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.{{Cite journal | last1 = Turnbull | first1 = H. W. | volume=s1-31 | doi = 10.1112/jlms/s1-31.3.376 | title = Archibald Read Richardson | journal = Journal of the London Mathematical Society | issue = 3 | pages = 376–384 | year = 1956 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Turnbull | first1 = H. W. | doi = 10.1017/S0950184300000343 | title = Archibald R. Richardson | journal = Edinburgh Mathematical Notes | volume = 40 | pages = 31–32 | year = 2008 | doi-access = free }}{{MacTutor Biography|id=Richardson_Archibald}}