Littlewood
Proper noun
Meaning
Littlewood (plural Littlewoods)
A surname from Old English.
Examples
I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people "Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms."
It was Mr. Littlewood (I believe) who remarked that "every positive integer was one of his personal friends."
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were "certainly the most remarkable I have received" and said that Ramanujan was "a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power".
For example, Liouville showed that is at most 53. Hardy and Littlewood showed that all sufficiently large numbers are the sum of at most 19 fourth powers.
Hardy saw that some were wrong, others had already been discovered, and the rest were new breakthroughs. citation Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood.