H. F. Baker

Professor Henry Baker
Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956)
Born
Henry Frederick Baker

(1866-07-03)3 July 1866
Cambridge, England
Died17 March 1956(1956-03-17) (aged 89)
Cambridge, England
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorArthur Cayley[1]
Doctoral students

Henry Frederick Baker FRS[2] FRSE (3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups.[3]

  1. ^ a b H. F. Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Hodge, W. V. D. (1956). "Henry Frederick Baker 1866-1956". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2: 49–68. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0004. JSTOR 769475.
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "H. F. Baker", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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