Mathematician:Morgan William Crofton

Mathematician

Irish mathematician who contributed to the field of geometric probability theory.

Nationality

Irish (then part of Great Britain).

History

• Born: 27 June 1826 in Dublin, Ireland
• Died: 13 May 1915 in Brighton, Sussex, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Cauchy-Crofton Formula (with Augustin Louis Cauchy)

Definitions of concepts named for Morgan William Crofton can be found here.

Publications

• 1868: On the Theory of Local Probability
• 1877: Lectures on the Elements of Applied Mechanics

Sources

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