Robert William Genese
Robert William Genese (1848, Dublin – 1928) was an Irish mathematician.
From St John's College of the University of Cambridge, Genese received in 1871 his bachelor's degree (with rank eighth Wrangler in the Tripos) and in 1874 his master's degree. He was from 1879 to 1919 professor of mathematics at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth.[1]
Genese introduced into the United Kingdom the ideas of Hermann Grassmann (advancing the use of vector analysis). In his 1941 book The calculus of extensions, Henry Forder published numerous examples in vector analysis taken from Genese's posthumous notes. (Genese's notes were left to the Mathematical Association and then given in 1929 to Forder by E. H. Neville.)[2]
Genese was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1904 in Heidelberg with talk On some useful theorems in the continued multiplication of a regressive product in real four-point space[3] and in 1908 in Rome with talk The method of reciprocal polars applied to forces in space.
Selected publications
- "Suggestions for the Practical Treatment of the Standard Cubic Equation, and a Contribution to the Theory of Substitution." The Mathematical Gazette 9, no. 129 (1917): 65–69. doi:10.2307/3603498
- "On the Theory of the Plane Complex with Simple Geometrical and Kinematical Illustrations." The Mathematical Gazette 11, no. 164 (1923): 293–301. doi:10.2307/3603761
- "A Simple Exposition of Grassmann's Methods." The Mathematical Gazette 13, no. 189 (1927): 373–391. doi:10.2307/3604329
References
- ↑ "Genese, Robert William (GNS867RW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Forder, Henry George (1941). "Preface, page v". The Calculus of Extension, including examples by Robert William Genese. University of Cambridge Press.
- ↑ On some useful theorems in the continued multiplication of a regressive product in real four-point space, Proceedings of the ICM in 1904, Heidelberg