Raymond Paley

Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley (7 January 1907 – 7 April 1933) was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis before dying young in a skiing accident.

[2][3] He was elected a Research Fellow of Trinity College in 1930,[4] edging out Todd for the position,[5] and continued at Cambridge as a postgraduate student, advised by John Edensor Littlewood.

[6] He traveled to the US in 1932 to work with Norbert Wiener at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and with George Pólya at Princeton University,[1] and as part of the same trip also planned to work with Lipót Fejér at a seminar in Chicago organized as part of the Century of Progress exposition.

He was killed on 7 April 1933 in a skiing trip to the Canadian Rockies, by an avalanche on Deception Pass.

[2]Paley, born in 1907, was one of the greatest stars in pure mathematics in Britain, whose young genius frightened even Hardy.