George Salmon

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George Salmon, Trinity College Dublin

George Salmon (born September 25, 1819 in Dublin , †  January 22, 1904 in Dublin) was an Irish mathematician and theologian .

Salmon studied mathematics at Trinity College Dublin , where he was elected a Fellow in 1841 . There he befriended Arthur Cayley and James Joseph Sylvester . In addition to mathematics, he also dealt with theology . In 1845 he became a priest of the Church of Ireland . He published several volumes of sermons and was elected Regius Professor of Theology at Dublin University in 1866 and provost in 1888 .

Salmon was elected in 1863 as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which awarded him in 1868 with the Royal Medal , in 1889 with the Copley Medal . In 1869 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1873 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1884 of the Académie des Sciences . In 1881 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1902, when the British Academy was founded, he became a member.

His textbooks on analytical, projective and algebraic geometry (invariant theory) were published in Germany by Otto Wilhelm Fiedler and were known as Salmon-Fiedler in Germany in the 19th century.

Felix Klein describes it in his History of Mathematics in the 19th Century (Volume 1, p. 164f) as a typical product of the venerable Trinity College Dublin, of a mild, but in administrative matters tenaciously conservative nature , which received him kindly during Klein's visit in 1899 and entertained with local anecdotes but was no longer interested in math. According to Klein, his mathematical textbooks were famous and, rightly, enjoyed great popularity for a long time. He compared them to a walk in the garden; they did not offer a strict development, but a relaxed narrative about the many beautiful results of the algebraic-geometrical consideration, which progresses in an easily legible, conversational tone .

The asteroid (29700) Salmon was named after him.

Fonts

  • Introduction to the New Testament . 8. A. 1894
  • The Infallibility of the Church . 2nd A. 1890
  • Conic sections . Dublin (1848)
  • Higher plane curves . Dublin (1862)
  • Analytic geometry of three dimensions . Dublin (1862)
  • The modern higher algebra . Dublin (1859)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 209.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salmon, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish mathematician and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1904
Place of death Dublin