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Augustus Love
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By the death of Professor Augustus Ernest Hough Love, F.R.S., who took place at Oxford yesterday, at the age of 77, the English school of applied mathematics loses a leader of outstanding ability and distinction.
Born at Wolverhampton in 1863 and educated at Wolverhampton School, he went up to Cambridge as a scholar of St. John's College, graduated in 1884, and in the following year was placed in the first class in Part 11 of the Mathematical Tripos and awarded a Smith's Prize. Elected a fellow of his college, his life at Cambridge was a period of marked activity, and his brilliant contributions to mathematics obtained for him election into the Royal Society in 1894. His appointment in 1898 to the Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford gave him greater leisure for his important research, which culminated in some remarkable papers on terrestrial physics, including speculations on the origin of the distribution of land and water. From 1895 to 1910, he acted as secretary of the London Mathematical Society, becoming president of the society in 1912.
His early books on elasticity, theoretical mechanics, and calculus have been widely used by many generations of students, while the latest and much enlarged edition of his Treatise on Elasticity is a monumental work of the utmost importance. He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems. His lectures to his students at Oxford were models of clear thinking and style.
By the death of Professor Augustus Ernest Hough Love, F.R.S., who took place at Oxford yesterday, at the age of 77, the English school of applied mathematics loses a leader of outstanding ability and distinction.
Born at Wolverhampton in 1863 and educated at Wolverhampton School, he went up to Cambridge as a scholar of St. John's College, graduated in 1884, and in the following year was placed in the first class in Part 11 of the Mathematical Tripos and awarded a Smith's Prize. Elected a fellow of his college, his life at Cambridge was a period of marked activity, and his brilliant contributions to mathematics obtained for him election into the Royal Society in 1894. His appointment in 1898 to the Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford gave him greater leisure for his important research, which culminated in some remarkable papers on terrestrial physics, including speculations on the origin of the distribution of land and water. From 1895 to 1910, he acted as secretary of the London Mathematical Society, becoming president of the society in 1912.
His early books on elasticity, theoretical mechanics, and calculus have been widely used by many generations of students, while the latest and much enlarged edition of his Treatise on Elasticity is a monumental work of the utmost importance. He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems. His lectures to his students at Oxford were models of clear thinking and style.
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