Joseph Wolstenholme
Joseph Wolstenholme (born September 30, 1829 in Eccles (near Manchester ), England , † November 18, 1891 ) was an English mathematician .
Wolstenholme was the son of a Methodist minister and studied from 1846 in Cambridge at St. John's College. In 1850 he graduated there as a Third Wrangler (that is, he was third in the Tripos mathematics exams). In 1852 he became a fellow at St. John's and shortly thereafter at Christ's College . After he married in 1869 he had to give up his fellowship and in 1871 became professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College in Cooper's Hill near London. In 1889 he retired.
He is best known for Wolstenholme's number theory theorem about the harmonic series .
Wolstenholme was friends with the parents of Virginia Woolf (her father Leslie Stephen ) and is the role model for Augustus Carmichael in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse .
Web links
John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Joseph Wolstenholme. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolstenholme, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eccles |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1891 |