Alfred Goldie

Alfred William Goldie (10 December 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – 8 October 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English mathematician.

Goldie was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and then read mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge.

His studies were interrupted by war work on ballistics with the Armament Research Department of the Ministry of Supply, eventually taking his BA in 1942 and MA in 1946.

In 1963 Goldie was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.

[1] Goldie won the 1970 Senior Berwick Prize from the London Mathematical Society, where he also served as vice-president from 1978 to 1980.