Ernest William Hobson
Ernest William Hobson (born October 27, 1856 in Derby , † April 19, 1933 in Cambridge ) was a British mathematician.
Hobson attended Derby College (where he already excelled in a national mathematics competition) and the Royal College of Mines (he studied physics there briefly on a scholarship) before going to Cambridge University in 1874 (Christ's College). In 1878 he was Senior Wrangler in the Tripos exams and was then a fellow of his college. From 1910 to 1931 he was Sadleirian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Hobson worked in the field of real analysis, including the theory of spherical functions. He also wrote on applications of calculus such as the article on conduction in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . From 1912 he was president of the Mathematical Association. He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1911 .
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- A Treatise on plane and advanced Trigonometry (1891)
- Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the theory of Fourier's Series (1907)
- Squaring the Circle - a history of the problem (1913)
- The Domain of Natural Science (1923) (Gifford Lectures 1921/2, University of Aberdeen)
- The Theory of Spherical and Ellipsoidal Harmonics (1931)
- John Napier and the invention of logarithm , Cambridge (1914)
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| SURNAME | Hobson, Ernest William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derby |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |