Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.[1]
R. W. H. T. Hudson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 July 1875 |
| Died | 20 September 1904 (aged 29) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of London |
| Awards | Smith's Prize (1900) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
Hudson read mathematics in St John's College, Cambridge, beginning in 1895, and became senior wrangler in 1898. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of St John's. He moved to University College, Liverpool as a lecturer in 1902, and defended a doctorate (D.Sc.) at the University of London in 1903. He died in a mountaineering accident in 1904 at the age of 28,[1] but his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface allows mathematicians today access to his work.
He was the oldest of four children of W.H.H. Hudson, Professor of mathematics at King's College London.[1] One of his sisters, Hilda Hudson was likewise a gifted mathematician, being a graduate of Newnham, a lecturer at the University of Berlin, and ultimately being awarded the O.B.E. in 1919.[2]
Publications edit
- Hudson, R. W. H. T. (1905), Kummer's Quartic Surface, Cambridge University Press. Reprinted as part of the Cambridge Mathematics Library with an added foreword by R. Barth, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39790-1, MR1097176.
References edit
- ^ a b c F.S.M. (1904), "Obituary: R. W. H. T. Hudson", The Mathematical Gazette, 3 (47), The Mathematical Association: 73–75, doi:10.1017/S0025557200241454, ISSN 0025-5572, JSTOR 3603630
- ^ Barrow-Green, June; Gray, Jeremy (2006), "Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940", Historia Mathematica, 33 (3): 315–56, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2005.09.002
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