John Blissard
John Blissard (* 1803 in Northampton , † 1875 in Hampstead Norreys or Norris) was a British clergyman and mathematician who dealt with combinatorics and is the founder of the Umbral calculus .
Life
Blissard was the son of a doctor. He studied from 1822 in Cambridge (St. John's College). In the Tripos he became a senior optime in 1826 and received his bachelor's degree in the same year. In 1827 he was ordained and became a curate in a Bedfordshire parish. In 1829 he became curate and after the death of his predecessor in 1843 vicar in Hampstead Norreys, where he remained until his death.
Even as a student he was doing mathematical research. His essay on the Umbral calculus appeared in 1861. He planned to publish a book about it, but never got around to it. He regularly published problems in the Educational Times.
In addition to his vicarage, he trained students for the Tripos in Cambridge in mathematics, including the sons of two personal physicians of Queen Victoria.
In 1827 he married Martha Morton, with whom he had twelve children.
literature
- Eric Temple Bell : The History of Blissard's Symbolic Method, with a Sketch of its Inventor's Life, The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 45, No. 7, 1938, pp. 414-421
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blissard: Theory of generic equations, The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 4, 1861, pp. 279-305, Volume 5, 1862, pp. 58-75, 185-208. In volumes 5 to 9, further new works with applications of the method appeared.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blissard, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northampton |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1875 |
| Place of death | Hampstead Norreys |