Alexander Murray Macbeath
born 30.6.1923 Glasgow
son of Professor Alec Macbeath
raised in Belfast from age of 3
graduated Queen's University,Belfast 1942 (BA Hons)
G.C. and C.S.,Bletchley Park 1942-45
Hut 7 (Japanese Naval codes)
fluent in Japanese
graduated Clare College,Cambridge postwar (MA Hons)
graduated Princeton University,USA (PhD)
lecturer,Keele University
Professor of Mathematics,University of Dundee 1953
Professor of Mathematics,Birmingham University 1963-79
Professor of Mathematics,Pittsburgh University,USA 1979
retired 1990 to Tayport,Fife (later Wellesbourne,Warwickshire)
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics,Warwick University
married Julie (for 62 years) (2 sons Ian and Peter)
died 14.5.2014 Warwick
