Herbert Turnbull
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Prof Herbert Westren Turnbull FRS FRSE LLD was an English mathematician. From 1921 to 1950 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. Life He was born in the Tettenhall district, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton on 31 August 1885, the eldest of five sons of William Peveril Turnbull, HM Inspector of Schools. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School then studied Mathematics at Cambridge University graduating MA.
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Published Works
- An Introduction to the Theory of Canonical Matrices (1932) (255)
- Correspondence of Isaac Newton (1961) (208)
- Theory of Equations (1940) (144)
- The Theory of Determinants. Matrices, and Invariants (1929) (112)
- The Great Mathematicians (48)
- A Manual of Greek Mathematics (1931) (44)
- On Differentiating a Matrix (1928) (29)
- On the Equivalence of Pencils of Hermitian Forms (1935) (26)
- Ternary Quadratic Types (22)
- A Matrix Form of Taylor's Theorem (20)
- James Gregory Tercentenary Memorial Volume. (1940) (20)
- Symmetric Determinants and the Cayley and Capelli Operator (1948) (20)
- Introduction to Plane Geometry (1943) (19)
- The Theory of Canonical Matrices (1934) (14)
- The Scientific Work of René Descartes (1952) (10)
- Matrix continued fractions (10)
- The skeleton key of mathematics (1951) (10)
- The Calculus of Extension (1941) (9)
- Contributions to the History of Determinants, 1900-1920 (1931) (9)
- On the Reduction of Singular Matrix Pencils (1935) (8)
- James Gregory: A Study in the Early History of Interpolation (1933) (8)
- The projective invariants of four mediale (1942) (7)
- Matrix Differentiation of the Characteristic Function (1931) (7)
- The Invariant Theory of a General Bilinear Form (1932) (6)
- Note on Partial Fractions and Determinants (1927) (6)
- On certain modular determinants (1940) (6)
- V.—A Geometrical Interpretation of the Complete System of the Double Binary (2, 2) Form (6)
- The Invariant Theory of Three Quadrics (5)
- Principal directions in a gravitational field (1939) (5)
- XII.—Matrices and Continued Fractions. (1934) (5)
- On the Vector Algebra of Eight Associated Points of Three Quadric Surfaces (1925) (5)
- The Matrix Square and Cube Roots of Unity (1927) (5)
- Note on Continued Fractions and the Sequence of Natural Numbers (1932) (4)
- The expression of an infinite lower semi-matrix in terms of its idempotent and nilpotent elements (1939) (3)
- The Simultaneous System of two Quadratic Quaternary Forms (1947) (3)
- The General Symbolic Notation for the Principle of Duality, and its Application to Determinants (3)
- XII.—Clebsch-Aronhold Symbols and the Theory of Symmetric Functions (1951) (3)
- XVIII.—The Invariant Theory of Forms in Six Variables relating to the Line Complex (3)
- On the Invariant Theory of Mixed Quaternary Forms (3)
- An Elementary Derivation of the Exponential Limit and of Euler's Constant (1935) (3)
- Note Upon The Generalized Cayleyan Operator (1949) (3)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. III: 1688-1694 (1960) (3)
- On the General Invariant Theory of Quadrics (2)
- Gordan's Theorem for Double Binary Forms (1922) (2)
- Collapsible circular sections of quadric surfaces (1940) (2)
- Canonical Forms of the Quaternary Cubic associated with arbitrary Quadrics (1924) (2)
- Double Binary Forms IV. (1923) (2)
- Recent Developments in Invariant Theory (1926) (2)
- Some Singularities of Surfaces and their Differential Geometry (2)
- XIV.—The Minimum System of Two Quadratic Forms in n Variables (2)
- The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Volume III, 1688-1694 (1962) (2)
- Early Scottish relations with the Royal Society I.- James Gregory, F. R. S. (1635-1675) (1940) (2)
- Bi-centenary of the death of Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), mathematician and philosopher, professor of mathematics in Marischal College, Aberdeen (1717-1725) : lecture in the University of St. Andrews, 4th February, 1947 (1951) (2)
- The geometry of matrices (1942) (1)
- Geometrical Properties of Three Symmetric Matrices (1935) (1)
- The Complete System of Linear Complexes and one Quaternary Quadric (1930) (1)
- XV.—Matrices and Continued Fractions, II. (1934) (1)
- Double Binary Perpetuants (1)
- The Critical Concomitant of Bilinear Forms (1946) (1)
- X.—The Revised Complete System of a Quadratic Complex (1938) (1)
- Archibald Read Richardson (1956) (1)
- James Gregory : tercentenary memorial volume : containing his correspondence with John Collins and his hitherto unpublished mathematical manuscripts, together with addresses and essays communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, July 4, 1938 (1939) (1)
- Duncan Mclaren Young Sommerville (1934) (1)
- The Tyranny of Mathematics: an Essay in the Symbiosis of Science, Poetry and Religion. By Geoffrey Hoyland. Pp. 52. 1s. 6d. 1945. (S.C.M. Press) (1945) (1)
- Self‐Conjugate Polygons for Quadrics and Linear Complexes (1927) (1)
- Edwin Bailey Elliott, 1851 - 1937 (1938) (1)
- The Discovery of the Infinitesimal Calculus (1951) (1)
- Non-Commutative Algebra (1928) (1)
- On the Roots of a Symmetrical Determinant (1)
- Cuthbert Edmund Cullis (1955) (1)
- A Geometrical treatment of the Correspondence between Lines in Threefold Space and Points of a Quadric in Fivefold space (1925) (1)
- Note on the Reduction of a Certain Invariant of Three Quaternary Quadrics (1)
- On the Complete Systems of two Quadratic Forms in n Variables (1)
- Note on a trigonometrical proof of the orthocentre property of a triangle (1925) (1)
- James Gregory (1638-75) (1938) (1)
- Note on a determinant derived from a triangular array (1)
- III.—Double Binary Forms (1)
- VIII.—The Invariant Theory of the Quaternary Quadratic Complex. I. The Prepared System. (0)
- Commentary: mathematics in the larger context. (1950) (0)
- V.—The Revised Prepared System of the Quadratic Complex (1937) (0)
- Professor D. M. Y. Sommerville, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. (0)
- Archibald R. Richardson (1956) (0)
- II.—Further Invariant Theory of two Quadratics in n Variables. (1931) (0)
- D'arcy Wentworth Thompson: 1860–1948 (1952) (0)
- A Course of Experimental Mechanics (1924) (0)
- John Williamson: 1901–1949 (1952) (0)
- Prof. D. M. Y. Sommerville (1934) (0)
- Algebra for Schools. Part II (1926) (0)
- Quadrics Associated with a Möbius Hexad (1935) (0)
- 2085. An Appeal to Authors (1949) (0)
- Invariants of two quaternary quadrics (1936) (0)
- III.—The Invariant Theory of the Correlation (1936) (0)
- Mann and Norman's Algebra (1923) (0)
- Archibald Read Richardson, 1881-1954 (1955) (0)
- Plane Geometry for Schools. Part II (1922) (0)
- Note on the Simultaneous System of Two Quaternary Quadratics. Addendum (1947) (0)
- Alfred Young, 1873 - 1940 (1941) (0)
- Diagonal matrices (1933) (0)
- Calculus Made Easy (1911) (0)
- XV.—The Invariant Theory of the Quaternary Quadratic Complex. II. The Complete System (0)
- Corrigenda: Self-Conjugate Polygons for Quadrics and Linear Complexes (1928) (0)
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