University of Southampton and Freeman Dyson
In 1936 he was appointed a member of the mathematics department at the University College, Southampton. In 1941, on the request of Winchester College he was asked to assist with the teaching of mathematics. By this time he had married Mary Tunstall, an English geographer and in addition to a young daughter Naomi had identical twin sons, Dan and Hugh. He taught a number of classes and in the top class one of the students was the twelve-year-old Freeman Dyson who showed enormous early talent and was strongly encouraged by Dan Pedoe with extra work and reading. Their friendship lasted more than fifty more years until Dan Pedoe's death in 1998 and Freeman Dyson's list of people who have most influenced him begins "Hardy, Pedoe...".
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