ProofWiki:Mathematicians/William Hunter McCrea

Known to his friends as Bill. Irish mathematician, physicist and astronomer who specialised in solar physics.

Nationality

Irish (then part of Great Britain).

History

• Born: 13 Dec 1904, Dublin, Ireland
• Died: 25 April 1999, Lewes, Sussex, England

Books and Publications

• 1929: Problems concerning the outer layers of the sun
• 1935: Relativity Physics
• 1942: Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions
• 1950: Physics of Sun and Stars
• 1969: Cosmology
• 1975: The Royal Greenwich Observatory
• 1987: History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1920 to 1980

See also

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Hunter McCrea": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive