Edward William Middlemast

Edward William Middlemast (born December 9, 1864 in Wallsend , † after 1915) was a British mathematician and educator .

Middlemast went to school in Newcastle upon Tyne and studied at Cambridge University (St. John's College) from 1883 and was tenth in the first part of the Tripos exams in 1886. In 1890 he received his MA. In 1888 he became a professor at Madras Engineering College and in 1897 he became director (Principal) of the Government Arts College in Rajahmundry . In 1903 he became deputy director of the school system in Madras. In 1904, at the invitation of the Dutch government, he was commissioned to take stock of the school system in the Netherlands and in 1905 he became a Fellow of the University of Madras. In 1910 he became professor of mathematics at Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai ), the precursor of the University of Madras, and in 1915 he was principal of the college, but was recalled to England in the same year. He was also the state school inspector from 1910 to 1915.

In 1915 he was president of the Indian Mathematical Society.

In 1911 he wrote a letter of recommendation in which he campaigned for the appointment of S. Ramanujan in the port administration of Madras and emphasized his great mathematical skills.

literature

• Bruce Berndt, George Andrews: Ramanujan, Letters and Commentary, American Mathematical Society 1995, p. 7
• Entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, Volume 2, Part 4, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berndt, Andrews, Ramanujan Letters, p. 7
2. ^ India List and India Office List, 1905
3. ↑ Another Presidency College was in Calcutta, both of which had been founded on the model of the University of London