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Horatio Carslaw
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Professor Horatio Scott Carslaw, Sc.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney, has died at his home in Burradoo, New South Wales, at the age of 84.
The son of the Rev. William Henderson Carslaw, D.D., of Helensburgh, he was born on February 12, 1870, and was educated at Glasgow University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He also studied in Rome, at Palermo, and at Göttingen. After taking his M.A. in Glasgow in 1891, he became a scholar of Emmanuel College and Fourth Wrangler in 1894. He was appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at Glasgow University in 1896 and was elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College in 1899. In 1903, he became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney and held the Chair until 1935.
He was the author of mathematical works of importance and distinction on non-Euclidean geometry, Fourier's series of integrals, and the conduction of heat. In his old age, he interested himself in formulas designed to aid in the just and efficient collection of income tax.
He married Ethel Maude, daughter of Sir William J. Clarke, Bt., of Rupertswood, Victoria, in 1907. She died within a year of their marriage.
Professor Horatio Scott Carslaw, Sc.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney, has died at his home in Burradoo, New South Wales, at the age of 84.
The son of the Rev. William Henderson Carslaw, D.D., of Helensburgh, he was born on February 12, 1870, and was educated at Glasgow University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He also studied in Rome, at Palermo, and at Göttingen. After taking his M.A. in Glasgow in 1891, he became a scholar of Emmanuel College and Fourth Wrangler in 1894. He was appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at Glasgow University in 1896 and was elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College in 1899. In 1903, he became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney and held the Chair until 1935.
He was the author of mathematical works of importance and distinction on non-Euclidean geometry, Fourier's series of integrals, and the conduction of heat. In his old age, he interested himself in formulas designed to aid in the just and efficient collection of income tax.
He married Ethel Maude, daughter of Sir William J. Clarke, Bt., of Rupertswood, Victoria, in 1907. She died within a year of their marriage.
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