Frank Smithies
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Frank Smithies | |
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Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 10 March 1912
Died | 16 November 2002 Cambridge, England | (aged 90)
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Awards | FRSE |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | The Theory of Linear Integral Equations (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | G. H. Hardy |
Doctoral students |
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, vol. 49, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-06502-3, MR 0104991[1]
- Smithies, F. (1997), Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59278-X[2]
References
- ^ Elliott, Joanne (1960). "Review: Integral equations by F. Smithies" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (4): 256–257. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10448-x.
- ^ 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. JSTOR 3619934. S2CID 126031597.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Smithies", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- "Frank Smithies", The Times, Obituary
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