Rosalind Tanner

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Rosalind Cecilia Hildegard Tanner , née Young, she used the first name Cecily, (born February 5, 1900 in Göttingen , † November 24, 1992 ) was a British mathematician and mathematician.

She published until 1953 under Rosalind Cecily Young or R. Cecily Young and then as RCH Tanner.

Rosalind Tanner was the eldest daughter (of six children) of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young . She went to school in Göttingen, Geneva and Lausanne and studied from 1917 at the University of Lausanne with a licentiate degree in 1925 (Licenciée es Sciences Math). In between, she worked with her father at University College Wales in Aberystwyth and with Edward Collingwood on the translation of a textbook by Georges Valiron , which was published in 1923 as the Lecture on the general theory of integral functions . Lausanne, she went to the 1925 Cambridge University ansGirton College and received his doctorate there in 1928 under Ernest William Hobson ( Foundations For The Generalization Of The Theory Of Stieltjes' Integration And Of The Theory Of Length, Area And Volume. An N-Dimensional Treatment ).

In a work that emerged from her dissertation in 1931, she was a pioneer of interval arithmetic . From 1936 she was no longer concerned with mathematical research, but worked for a while with Sydney Chapman on a textbook of mathematical physics, which was not completed.

From 1933 she was at Imperial College London , where she set up a mathematical research seminar (including 1961 with GJ Whithrow) and dealt with the history of mathematics, especially the 16th and 17th centuries and with Thomas Harriot , on whom she held seminars in Oxford (1967) and Durham organized. In 1967 she retired, but remained scientifically active. The Harriot research seminar, founded by her in 1967, still takes place annually, alternating between Durham (founded by her in 1979) and Oxford.

In 1953 she married Bernard Tanner, an engineer who oversaw the technical facilities at Imperial College but died nine months after the wedding.

Fonts

  • Functions of defined by addition of functions of intervals in n-dimensional formulation, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 29, 1929, pp. 171–216, digitized
  • On Riemann integration with respect to a continuous increment, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Volume 29, 1929, pp. 217-233, digitized
  • The algebra of many-valued quantities, Mathematische Annalen, Volume 104, 1931, pp. 260-280, digitized

Works on Thomas Harriot:

  • Henry Stevens and the associates of Thomas Harriot, in Thomas Harriot: Renaissance scientist (Oxford, 1974), 91-106.
  • Nathaniel Torporley's 'Congestor analyticus' and Thomas Harriot's 'De triangulis laterum rationalium', Ann. of Sci. 1977, 34 (4): 393-428.
  • The ordered regiment of the minus sign: off-beat mathematics in Harriot's manuscripts, Ann. of Sci. 37 (2): 127-158 (1980).
  • The study of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts. I. Harriot's will, History of science 6 (Cambridge, 1967), 1-16.
  • Thomas Harriot as mathematician. A legacy of hearsay. I, physical riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. 1967, 9: 235-247.
  • Thomas Harriot as mathematician. A legacy of hearsay. II, physical riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. 1967, 9: 257-292.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosalind Tanner in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Rosalind Cecily Young: The algebra of many-valued quantities, Mathematische Annalen, Volume 104, 1931, pp. 260-290
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Rosalind
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Cecily; Young, Rosalind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH November 1992