Andrew Russell Forsyth | |
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Born | 18 June 1858
Glasgow, Scotland |
Died | 2 June 1942
South Kensington, England |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Awards | Royal Medal (1897) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
University of Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge Imperial College London |
Academic advisors | Arthur Cayley |
Notable students | Edmund Taylor Whittaker |
Andrew Russell Forsyth, FRS, [1] FRSE (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a British mathematician. [2] [3]
Forsyth was born in Glasgow on 18 June 1858, the son of John Forsyth, a marine engineer, and his wife Christina Glen. [4]
Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881. [5] He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24. He returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in 1884 and became Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in 1895. [6]
Forsyth was forced to resign his chair in 1910 as a result of a scandal caused by his affair with Marion Amelia Boys, née Pollock, the wife of physicist C. V. Boys. Boys was granted a divorce on the grounds of Marion's adultery with Forsyth. Marion and Andrew Forsyth were later married. [7]
Forsyth became professor at the Imperial College of Science in 1913 and retired in 1923, remaining mathematically active into his seventies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1886 [1] and won its Royal Medal in 1897. He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome. [8]
He is now remembered much more as an author of treatises than as an original researcher. His books have, however, often been criticized (for example by J. E. Littlewood, in his A Mathematician's Miscellany). [9] E. T. Whittaker was his only official student. [3]
He died in London on 2 June 1942 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. [4]
Forsyth received the degree of Doctor mathematicae ( honoris causa) from the Royal Frederick University on 6 September 1902, when they celebrated the centennial of the birth of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. [10] [11]
Forsyth married Marion Amelia Pollock in 1910. [1]
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A. R. Forsyth wrote a CUP book on functions of two complex variables. It is a thoroughly bad book.
Andrew Russell Forsyth | |
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Born | 18 June 1858
Glasgow, Scotland |
Died | 2 June 1942
South Kensington, England |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Awards | Royal Medal (1897) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
University of Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge Imperial College London |
Academic advisors | Arthur Cayley |
Notable students | Edmund Taylor Whittaker |
Andrew Russell Forsyth, FRS, [1] FRSE (18 June 1858, Glasgow – 2 June 1942, South Kensington) was a British mathematician. [2] [3]
Forsyth was born in Glasgow on 18 June 1858, the son of John Forsyth, a marine engineer, and his wife Christina Glen. [4]
Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881. [5] He was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24. He returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in 1884 and became Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in 1895. [6]
Forsyth was forced to resign his chair in 1910 as a result of a scandal caused by his affair with Marion Amelia Boys, née Pollock, the wife of physicist C. V. Boys. Boys was granted a divorce on the grounds of Marion's adultery with Forsyth. Marion and Andrew Forsyth were later married. [7]
Forsyth became professor at the Imperial College of Science in 1913 and retired in 1923, remaining mathematically active into his seventies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1886 [1] and won its Royal Medal in 1897. He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome. [8]
He is now remembered much more as an author of treatises than as an original researcher. His books have, however, often been criticized (for example by J. E. Littlewood, in his A Mathematician's Miscellany). [9] E. T. Whittaker was his only official student. [3]
He died in London on 2 June 1942 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. [4]
Forsyth received the degree of Doctor mathematicae ( honoris causa) from the Royal Frederick University on 6 September 1902, when they celebrated the centennial of the birth of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. [10] [11]
Forsyth married Marion Amelia Pollock in 1910. [1]
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A. R. Forsyth wrote a CUP book on functions of two complex variables. It is a thoroughly bad book.