Charles Fox (mathematician)
Charles Fox (born March 17, 1897 in London , † April 30, 1977 in Montreal ) was a British-Canadian mathematician.
Fox studied from 1915 on a scholarship at Cambridge University and passed the Tripos exams with top marks. His studies were interrupted by military service in France in 1917/18 during the First World War. In 1919 he became a lecturer at Imperial College London and in 1920 at Birkbeck College. In 1927 he received his doctorate under George Jeffery at the University of London . In 1932 he married and in 1949 he emigrated to Canada, where he taught at McGill University and was given a full professorship in 1956. In 1967 he retired, but continued to teach at what is now Concordia University in Montreal.
He dealt with hypergeometric functions, special functions, integral transforms, integral equations, statistical distributions and mathematics of navigation. In 1961 he introduced Fox's H-function, a generalization of Meijer's G-function .
In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University. In 1961 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .
Fonts
- An introduction to the calculus of variations, 1950, 2nd edition 1963
- The G and H functions as symmetrical Fourier kernels, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 98, 1961, pp. 395-429 (H function from Fox)
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Charles Fox (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
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| SURNAME | Fox, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1977 |
| Place of death | Montreal |