Norman Macleod Ferrers

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Mathematics

#1996

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Geometry

#228

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Algebra

#1153

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Measure Theory

#7260

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According to Wikipedia, Norman Macleod Ferrers was a British mathematician and university administrator and editor of a mathematical journal. Career and research Ferrers was educated at Eton College before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1851. He was appointed to a Fellowship at the college in 1852, was called to the bar in 1855 and was ordained deacon in 1859 and priest in 1860. In 1880, he was appointed Master of the college, and served as vice-chancellor of Cambridge University from 1884 to 1885.

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Mathematical Papers of the Late George Green: On the Propagation of Light in crystallized Media (89)
Mathematical papers of the late George Green (1904) (29)
Mathematical papers of the late George Green edited by N.M. Ferrers. (23)
I. Note on Professor Sylvester’s representation of the motion of a free rigid body by that of a material ellipsoid whose centre is fixed, and which rolls on a rough plane (1)
Chapter IV: Spherical harmonics in general. Tesseral and sectorial harmonics. Zonal harmonics with their axes in any position. Potential of a solid nearly spherical in form (0)
Chapter VI: Ellipsoidal and spheroidal harmonics (0)
Note on Professor Sylvester's Representation of the Motion of a Free Rigid Body by That of a Material Ellipsoid Rolling on a Rough Plane. [Abstract] (0)
Chapter III: Application of zonal harmonics to the theory of attraction. Representation of discontinuous functions by series of zonal harmonics (0)
Chapter I: Introductory. Definition of spherical harmonics (0)
Chapter V: Spherical harmonics of the second kind (0)
Chapter II: Zonal harmonics (0)

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