Daniel Edwin Rutherford

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Daniel Edwin Rutherford (born July 4, 1906 in Stirling , † November 9, 1966 in St Andrews ) was a British mathematician who studied algebra.

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Rutherford studied at the University of St Andrews (Master's degree in 1928) with Herbert Turnbull and then went to Amsterdam , where he did his doctorate with Roland Weitzenböck . The dissertation was published in 1932 as "Modular Invariants" in the Cambridge Tracts (new edition 1964). He was then an assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of St Andrews, where he built up the department of applied mathematics as a lecturer from 1934. In 1949 he received a doctorate (D.Sc.), was a reader at St Andrews in 1952 and a professor (Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics) in 1964. His main field of work was algebra and especially the representation theory of the symmetrical group (with the Young tableaux by Alfred Young ), presented in his book "Substitutional Analysis" (1948). He also wrote books on vector computation and hydrodynamics (among other things he examined numerical methods for hydrodynamics).

In 1934 he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , whose Keith Prize he received.

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SURNAME Rutherford, Daniel Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Stirling , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1966
Place of death St Andrews