Biography:Frank H. Berkshire
Frank H. Berkshire is a British mathematician, an expert on fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and the mathematics of gambling.[1] He is also known as a coauthor of the textbook Classical Mechanics.[2][3]
Education and career
Berkshire is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge.[4]
He joined the faculty in the department of mathematics at Imperial College London in 1967. There he became a senior lecturer, director of undergraduate studies since 1987, and teaching fellow in 1996.[4] In 2000, he won Imperial College's Rector's Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence.[5]
He retired in 2011 and remains principal teaching fellow in dynamics at Imperial.[6]
Textbook
In 1997, Berkshire became a co-author on the 4th edition of Tom Kibble's textbook Classical Mechanics.[2] The fifth edition was published by the Imperial College Press in 2004.[3]
References
- ↑ Amen, Saeed (2014). Trading Thalesians: What the Ancient World Can Teach Us About Trading Today. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 29. doi:10.1057/9781137399533. ISBN 978-1-349-48578-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=YxxHBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT29. "Dr. Frank Berkshire from Imperial College has researched among other things the mathematics of gambling"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Isenberg, C. (March 1997). "Review of Classical Mechanics, 4th ed.". European Journal of Physics 18 (2). doi:10.1088/0143-0807/18/2/017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Solomon, Allan I. (November 2012). "Review of Classical Mechanics, 5th ed.". Contemporary Physics 53 (6): 542–543. doi:10.1080/00107514.2012.739661.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Team effort wins teaching fellowship for Maths lecturer". IC Reporter (Imperial College London) 36. December 1996. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/publications/reporterarchive/0036/news06.htm.
- ↑ "Prizes and Awards". Imperial College London Department of Mathematics. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/about-us/prizes-and-awards/. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ↑ "Dr Frank Berkshire". Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.berkshire. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
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