George Peacock

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George Peacock

George Peacock (born April 9, 1791 in Thornton Hall, Denton, near Darlington , † November 8, 1858 in Ely , England ) was an English mathematician.

Peacock began in 1809 his studies at Trinity College of Cambridge University . In 1814 he became a Fellow of Trinity College. He then held various teaching positions at Trinity College.

In 1836 he was appointed Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge University and three years later dean (dean) of Ely Cathedral, having received his doctorate in theology in 1839.

Peacock was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820, along with Charles Babbage and John Herschel . With Babbage he was a member of the Analytical Society , which had set itself the goal of modernizing mathematics lessons, especially in analysis, and of catching up on the backlog in England, caused by the insistence on the outdated Newtonian notation compared to the considerably more successful Leibnizian notation and thus in the 18th 3rd century advances outside England made. Together they translated Sylvestre Lacroix's analysis textbook in 1816 and propagated the "continental" methods everywhere. Peacock also authored a textbook on algebra (1830).

According to him, which is Mount Peacock in Antarctica named.

Works

  • A Collection of Examples of the Application of the Differential and Integral Calculus . 1820
  • Observations on the statutes of the University of Cambridge . Parker, London 1841
  • A treatise on algebra . 1842

literature

Gottwald, Ilgauds, Schlote Lexicon of Important Mathematicians , Leipzig 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Peacock, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Thornton Hall, Denton, near Darlington
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1858
Place of death Ely , England