ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Edward Lindsay Ince

English mathematician who worked mainly in the field of differential equations.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 30 Nov 1891 in Amblecote, Staffordshire, England
• 1909: Matriculated at Edinburgh University
• 1913: Graduated with First Class Honours in mathematics
• 1915: Went to Cambridge to continue research
• 1918: Appointed lecturer in mathematics at University of Leeds
• 1920: Lectureship in mathematics at Liverpool
• 1923: Elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 1924: Married Phyllis Fry
• 1926: Chair of pure mathematics at Egyptian University in Cairo
• 1931: Returned to Britain, teaching at Edinburgh University
• 1932: Appointed to Imperial College, London
• 1935: Appointed head of Department of Technical Mathematics at Edinburgh
• Died: 16 March 1941 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Books and Papers

• 1926: Ordinary Differential Equations
• 1934: Mathematical Tables, Volume IV: Cycles of reduced ideals in quadratic fields
• 1939: Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations
• 1940: The periodic Lamé functions
• 1940: Further investigations into the periodic Lamé functions
• 1942: Simultaneous linear partial differential equations of the second order (posthumous)

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edward Lindsay Ince": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive