Jersey, Channel Islands

Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles


George Shoobridge Carr (b. 1837) attended school in Jersey. He later wrote the Synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics which so influenced Ramanujan [1].


References (show)

  1. Kanigel, Robert. The Man Who Knew Infinity. A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. (Scribner's, NY, 1991); Abacus (Little, Brown & Co. (UK)), London, 1992. p. 40

The Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles was created by David Singmaster.
The original site is at THIS LINK.