Leonard James Rogers

Leonard James Rogers FRS[1] (30 March 1862 – 12 September 1933) was a British mathematician who was the first to discover the Rogers–Ramanujan identity and Hölder's inequality, and who introduced Rogers polynomials.

[3] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating BA and BMus in 1884 and MA in 1887.

Rogers became lecturer in mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford in 1885.

[3] Rogers worked initially on reciprocants in the theory of differential invariants, and then moved into the area of special functions, where he anticipated results of Ramanujan.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1924.