| 词条 | Alexander Brown (mathematician) |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Alexander Brown | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date |1878|05|05}} | birth_place = Dalkeith, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age |1947|01|27 |1878|05|05}} | death_place = Cape Town, South Africa | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = South African | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = High School of Dundee South African College (University of Cape Town) | patrons = | education = Newton Public School George Watson's College | alma_mater = University of Edinburgh Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Ratio of incommensurables and geometry of regular polygons | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = Mary Graham | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}Alexander Brown FRSE FRSSAf (1878–1947) was a Scottish-born mathematician and educator in South Africa. He contributed to the study of the ratio of incommensurables in geometry and relations between the distances of a point from three vertices of a regular polygon. CareerBrown was born in Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, Scotland on 5 May 1878. He attended Newton Public School and then George Watson's College, where he was the winner of the Wright Bursary in his final year. He enrolled at Edinburgh University in 1893 where he obtained a MA (Mathematics and Natural Science)(First Class) and a BSc (Mathematics and Natural Science)(Special Distinction) in 1897. While at Edinburgh University he held the first Heriot Bursary and Mackay Smith scholarship. On completion of his degrees he won the Vans Dunlop scholarship, the Baxter scholarship and the Drummond scholarship.[2] He was mathematical master at Dundee High School from 1897 to 1899. In 1899 he won the Ferguson Scholarship in Mathematics and he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he obtained a First Class in Mathematics in 1902.[2] In 1903 he became Deputy Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics for one year at the South African College, Cape Town in the absence of the holder of the chair, Carruthers Beattie, who was on a year-long magnetic survey of South Africa. In recognition of Brown's exceptional work during that year the College Council split the Chair and Beattie was offered the professorship of Physics while Brown was offered the professorship of Mathematics. He retained this position until his death on 27 January 1947.[2][5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1907. His proposers were George Chrystal, Arthur John Pressland, John Sturgeon Mackay and John Alison. In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.[2] Personal lifeHe married Mary Graham in 1911 and they had a daughter and a son. In his leisure time he was a great reader and a keen musician.[2] WorksHe contributed to the study of the ratio of incommensurables in geometry and relations between the distances of a point from three vertices of a regular polygon. His paper on this subject was read before the Edinburgh Mathematical Society on 11 June 1909. Selected publications
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |last1=Crawford |first1=Lawrence |title=RSE Obituary |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits2/Brown_Alex_RSE_Obituary.html |website=MacTutor History of Mathematics |publisher=University of St. Andrews, Scotland |accessdate=1 April 2019}} [1][2]2. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Flood |first1=Raymond |last2=Rice |first2=Adrian |last3=Wilson |first3=Robin |title=Mathematics in Victorian Britain |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |isbn=9780199601394 |url=https://books.google.co.za/books?id=l5YiddUUfl4C&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=Alexander+Brown+scottish+mathematician |accessdate=1 April 2019}} }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Alexander}} 10 : 1878 births|1947 deaths|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of South Africa|Mathematicians|19th-century Scottish people|20th-century Scottish people|University of Cape Town academics|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
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