Biography:Frank Smithies
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Short description: British mathematician (1912–2002)
Frank Smithies | |
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| Born | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 16 November 2002 (aged 90) Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Awards | FRSE |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The Theory of Linear Integral Equations (1937) |
| Doctoral advisor | G. H. Hardy |
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Frank Smithies FRSE (10 March 1912 – 16 November 2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.
Publications
- Smithies, F. (1958), Integral equations, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 49, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-06502-3, https://books.google.com/books?id=YhY7AAAAIAAJ[1]
- Smithies, F. (1997), Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59278-X, https://books.google.com/books?id=RWf3-PwokpMC[2]
References
- ↑ Elliott, Joanne (1960). "Review: Integral equations by F. Smithies". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (4): 256–257. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10448-x. https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1960-66-04/S0002-9904-1960-10448-X/S0002-9904-1960-10448-X.pdf.
- ↑ Johnson, Dale M. (November 1998). "Review: Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory by F. Smithies". The Mathematical Gazette 82 (495): 537–540. doi:10.2307/3619934.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Smithies", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Smithies.html.
- "Frank Smithies", The Times, Obituary, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits/Smithies.html
External links
- Works by F. Smithies at Project Gutenberg
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- Frank Smithies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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