George Salmon 1819 - 1904: His Mathematical Work and Influence
1997; Irish Mathematical Society; Volume: 0039; Linguagem: Inglês
10.33232/bims.0039.26.76
ISSN0791-5578
Autores Tópico(s)History and Theory of Mathematics
Resumois also included, but he should really be considered a physicist.James MacCullagh is not included, although he was certainly a mathematical physicist.)Of these, it would generally be agreed that W. R. Hamilton (1805-65), whose discoveries are routinely used in several branches of mathematics, is the most illustrious.Stokes (1819-1903) and Smith (1826-1883) are held in high esteem internationally, but their creative work was done outside Ireland, Stokes working at Cambridge and Smith at Oxford.D'Arcy (1725-79) is probably not well known, and he lived most of his adult life in France.In this article, we intend to discuss the remaining Irish mathematician in this list, George Salmon, who, without making any mathematical discoveries comparable with those of the three mathematicians mentioned above, exerted a great in uence on mathematical research and teaching in Europe and America in the second half of the 19th century.This in uence was derived from four textbooks that Salmon published in Dublin between 1848 and 1862.Each of these appeared in at least three editions, and photographic reprints of the nal editions of each book, made in the 1960's by the Chelsea Publishing Company of New York, may still be available.Salmon's role as a disseminator and popularizer of contemporary research in algebra and geometry has been acknowledged by most historians of mathematics, although there is a tendency
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