Professor Joseph Langley Burchnall OBE, FRSE (8 December 1892 – 29 April 1975) was an English mathematician who introduced the Burchnall–Chaundy theory.
Around 1900 the family moved to Butterwick, and thereafter Joseph was educated at Boston Grammar School, then progressed to Christ Church, Oxford graduating BA in 1914 and MA (in absentia) in 1915.
After the war he joined Durham University as a Reader in Mathematics then progressed to be a Lecturer.
He wrote many mathematical papers in conjunction with Theodore William Chaundy.
[2] He is buried in St Edmunds Church Cemetery in Southwold.