Andrew Russell Forsyth

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Andrew Russell Forsyth (born June 18, 1858 in Glasgow , † June 2, 1942 in London ) was a British mathematician .

Life

Andrew Russell Forsyth was born in 1859 to John Forsyth. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University , where he graduated with a Master of Arts .

Forsyth taught from 1882 to 1883 as a mathematics professor at University College Liverpool . From 1884 to 1910 he worked in Cambridge ; here he was from 1884 to 1895 "Lecturer" and "Assistant Tutor" at Trinity College and from 1895 to 1910 Sadlerian Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge University. From 1913 to 1923 he was Chief Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London .

Among other things, he published on the theory of differential equations , function theory , differential geometry and calculus of variations . He was also the author of numerous textbooks.

Forsyth married Marion Amelia Pollock (1866–1920), a granddaughter of the lawyer and politician Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock (1783–1870) , who had previously been married to Charles Boys . Because of this, Forsyth had to leave Trinity College, Cambridge and give up his Fellow status. As a result, his friend Alfred North Whitehead also left Cambridge in protest.

Honors and memberships

From 1881 to 1910 Forsyth was a "Fellow" of Trinity College, Cambridge University. In 1886 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which in 1897 awarded him the Royal Medal . In 1900 he was admitted to the Royal Society of Edinburgh as an Honorary Fellow .

He was a member of the London Mathematical Society and its president from 1904 to 1906. In 1907 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1908 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome (On the Present Condition of Partial Differential Equations of the Second Order as Regards Formal Integration).

Works

  • Theory of differential equations , 6 volumes (1890–1906)
  • Theory of functions of a complex variable (1893, reprint 1965)
  • Calculus of variations (1927)
  • Geometry of four dimensions , 2 volumes (1930)

Web links

Wikisource: Andrew Russell Forsyth  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See family tree entry at pollock.4mg.com and the entry en: Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet in the English Wikipedia.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ List of Presidents of the London Mathematical Society .
personal data
SURNAME Forsyth, Andrew Russell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1942
Place of death London