Herbert Turnbull
| Herbert Turnbull | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Herbert Westren Turnbull 31 August 1885 Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 4 May 1961 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
| Doctoral students | Walter Ledermann[1] |
| Notable awards |
Smith's Prize (1909) Fellow of the Royal Society[2] |
Herbert Westren Turnbull (31 August 1885 – 4 May 1961) was an English mathematician.[1][2][3] From 1921 to 1950 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.[4]
After serving as lecturer at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1909), the University of Liverpool (1910), and the University of Hong Kong (1912), Turnbull became master at St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong (1911–15), and warden of the University Hostel (1913–15). He was a fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford (1919–26), and from 1921 held a chair of mathematics at the University of St. Andrews. In 1932 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Selected publications
- The Theory of Determinants, Matrices, and Invariants. 1928.
- The Great Mathematicians. 1929.
- Theory of Equations. 1939.
- The Mathematical Discoveries of Newton. 1945.
- with A. C. Aitken: An Introduction to the Theory of Canonical Matrices. 1945.
- as editor: The correspondence of Isaac Newton, first 3 vols (1959–1961) out of a total of 7 vols (1959–77).
References
- 1 2 Herbert Turnbull at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 Aitken, A. C. (1962). "Herbert Westren Turnbull 1885-1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8: 149. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1962.0011. JSTOR 769468.
- ↑ "Herbert Westren Turnbull". Britannica.com. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Herbert Westren Turnbull", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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