Edward Lindsay Ince
Edward Lindsay Ince (born November 30, 1891 in Amblecote , Staffordshire , † March 16, 1941 in Edinburgh ) was a British mathematician.
Ince went to school in Wales and Scotland (Perth), studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh from 1909 to 1913 and did research at Cambridge University in 1915 , for which he received the Smith Prize in 1917 . He was exempt from military service due to medical reasons, but worked for the military in the further course of the First World War. In 1918 he became a lecturer at the University of Leeds and in 1920 at the University of Liverpool . From 1926 to 1931 he built the mathematics faculty at Cairo University . In 1931/32 he taught first in Edinburgh and then until 1935 at Imperial College in London before becoming a professor at Edinburgh University.
He dealt with ordinary differential equations and their solutions, for example with special functions by Mathieu and Lamé , and wrote a standard work on differential equations at that time. A differential equation of the 2nd order, which generalizes the math equation, is named after him, as well as its solutions (Ince polynomials).
He had been married since 1924 and had two daughters.
In 1923 he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Shortly before his death, he received their Makdougall Brisbane Prize for his work on the lamé functions, which he was no longer able to receive.
Fonts
- Ordinary Differential Equations, Longmans, Green and Co., London 1927, Reprint Dover 1944
- Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Oliver and Boyd 1939, 1943 (2nd edition after his death edited by Arthur Erdélyi ).
- German translation: The integration of ordinary differential equations, BI University Pocket Books 1965
- A course in descriptive geometry for the mathematical laboratory, G. Bell and Sons 1915 (Edinburgh Mathematical Tracts)
- Principles of Descriptive Geometry, E. Arnold 1933
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Edward Lindsay Ince. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ince, Edward Lindsay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amblecote , Staffordshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1941 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |