Edwin_Bailey_Elliott

Edwin Bailey Elliott

Edwin Bailey Elliott

British mathematician (1851–1937)

Not to be confused with Edward Bishop Elliott.

Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS[1] (born 1 June 1851, Oxford, England; died 21 July 1937 in Oxford, England) was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory. In 1892 he was appointed Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford.[2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote the book An introduction to the algebra of quantics, on invariant theory (Elliott 1913).[3]

portrait of Edwin Bailey Elliott

Publications

  • Elliott, Edwin Bailey (1913) [1895], An introduction to the algebra of quantics. (2nd ed.), Oxford. Clarendon Press, JFM 26.0135.01[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Turnbull, H. W. (1938). "Edwin Bailey Elliott. 1851-1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 424–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0026.
  2. [2]
    "Chairs and Professors of Universities in the United Kingdom". Who's Who Year-book for 1905. 1908. p. 138.
  3. [3]
    O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Bailey Elliott", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. [4]
    "Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott". The Athenaeum (3560): 90. 18 January 1896.
  5. [5]
    Leib, D. D. (1914). "Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by E. B. Elliott". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21: 132–133. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02599-6.

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