Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller

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Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller , mostly quoted by JCP Miller, (born August 31, 1906 in Isleworth , † April 24, 1981 ) was a British mathematician .

Jeffrey Miller studied mathematics at Trinity College in Cambridge with the Bachelor Accounts 1928, the Master Accounts in 1931 and his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1933. In addition, he was in 1926 Wrangler in Part 1 of Tripos exams and 1928 of Part 2. He was from 1935 to 1947 at the University of Liverpool as a University Lecturer at the Computing Laboratory and then Technical Director of Scientific Computing Service in London .

Miller is known for creating tables of math functions. A numerical method named after him for calculating Bessel functions comes from him. In 1930 he discovered a new Archimedean solid , the pseudo-rhombic cuboctahedron. However, in many classifications it is listed as an Archimedean body, rather than a Johnson body .

In 1954 he classified uniform polyhedra with HSM Coxeter and Michael Longuet-Higgins . A non-convex, uniform polyhedron with outstanding properties is called Miller's monster after him (large dirhombicosidodecahedron). It is the only uniform polyhedron with more than six sides meeting at each corner and cannot be made using the Wythoff construction method. Together with Coxeter he found a total of twelve new uniform polyhedra and he also made other discoveries in the field of the theory of polyhedra in collaboration with Coxeter (such as Miller's rule in the theory of star bodies).

He also published on number theory. His table works also concerned functions with astronomical applications (such as the solution of the Emden equation).

He was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Meteorological Society .

literature

  • Raymond Clare Archibald: Mathematical Table Makers: Portraits, Paintings, Busts, Monuments, Bio-bibliographical Notes, 1948
  • DH Sadler: Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller, 1906 August 31-1981 April 24, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 23, 1981, pp. 311-313

Fonts

  • Alan Fletcher, Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller, Louis Rosenhead, LJ Comrie: An Index of Mathematical Tables, 2 volumes, Addison-Wesley (for Scientific Computing Service) 1962

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins, Miller, Uniform polyhedra, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A., Volume 246, 1954, pp. 401-445
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Jeffrey Charles Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, JCP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Isleworth
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1981