Norman Macleod Ferrers

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Norman Macleod Ferrers (1829-1903) was a British mathematician at Cambridge's Gonville and Caius College (vice chancellor of Cambridge University 1884) who now seems to be remembered mainly for pointing out a conjugacy in integer partition diagrams, which are accordingly called Ferrers graphs and are closely related to Young diagrams.

[edit] Works

• N.M. Ferrers, An Elementary Treatise on Trilinear Coordinates (London, 1861)
• N.M. Ferrers (ed.), Mathematical papers of the late George Green, 1871

[edit] External links

• http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P9877
• http://www.macleodgenealogy.org/ACMS/D0035/I2304.html