Mathematician:Herbert Westren Turnbull

Mathematician

English mathematician best known now for his writings on the history of mathematics.

Did considerably work on the theory of invariants.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 31 August 1885, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, England
• Died: 4 May 1961, Grasmere, Westmoreland, England

Publications

• 1928: The Theory of Determinants, Matrices, and Invariants
• 1929: The Great Mathematicians
• 1939: Theory of Equations
• 1945: The Mathematical Discoveries of Newton
• 1945: An Introduction to the Theory of Canonical Matrices (with Alexander Craig Aitken)
• 1959 -- 1961: The Correspondence of Isaac Newton (as editor)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Herbert Westren Turnbull": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive