William Henry Young
William Henry Young FRS[1] (London, 20 October 1863 - Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[2] He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus amongst other fields, and made brilliant and long-lasting contributions to the study of functions of several complex variables. He was the husband of Grace Chisholm Young and father of Laurence Chisholm Young.[3]
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References
- ^ Hardy, G. H. (1943). "William Henry Young. 1863-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 4 (12): 306–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0005. edit
- ^ Young, William Henry in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Henry Young", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Young.html .
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British mathematician |
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20 October 1863 |
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7 July 1942 |
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