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词条 Clive W. Kilmister
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  1. Honors, positions, and titles

  2. Publications (arranged by year of publication)

  3. References

  4. External links

Clive W. Kilmister (January 3, 1924 – May 2, 2010) was a British Mathematician who specialised in the mathematical foundations of Physics, especially Quantum Mechanics and Relativity and published widely in these fields (see References). He was one of the discoverers of the Combinatorial Hierarchy, along with A. F. Parker-Rhodes, E. W. Bastin, and J.C.Amson. He was strongly influenced by astrophysicist Arthur Eddington and was well known for his elaboration and elucidation of Eddington's Fundamental theory.

Kilmister attended Queen Mary College London for both his under- and postgraduate degrees. His 1950 PhD on The Use of Quaternions in Wave-Tensor Calculus related to Eddington's work, and was supervised by cosmologist George C. McVittie, who was one of Eddington's students.[1] His own students included Brian Tupper (1959, King's College London, now professor emeritus of general relativity and cosmology at University of New Brunswick Fredericton [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811074000/http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/math/Graduate_Program.html]), Samuel Edgar (1977, University of London), and Tony Crilly (reader in mathematical sciences at Middlesex University and author of The Big Questions: Mathematics [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1849162409] (1981).[2]

Kilmister was elected as a member of the London Mathematical Society during his doctoral studies (March 17, 1949). Upon graduation, he began his career as an Assistant Lecturer in the Mathematics Department of King's College in 1950. The entirety of his academic career was spent at King's. In 1954, Kilmister founded the King's Gravitational Theory Group, in concert with Hermann Bondi and Felix Pirani, which focused on Einstein's theory of general relativity. At retirement, Kilmister was both a Professor of Mathematics and Head of the King's College Mathematics Department.[3]

Honors, positions, and titles

  • Member, London Mathematical Society, 1949-2010
  • President, British Society for the History of Mathematics, 1974-6
  • President, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, 1981-2
  • President, Mathematical Association, 1979–80
  • Gresham Professor of Geometry, 1972–88
  • Committee Member, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, 1971-4[3]
  • Founding Member, Alternative Natural Philosophy Association[4]

Publications (arranged by year of publication)

  • "Eddington's Statistical Theory (Oxford Mathematical Monographs) " (1962)[5]
  • "Hamiltonian Dynamics" (1964)[6]
  • "The Environment in Modern Physics: A Study in Relativistic Mechanics" (1965)[7]
  • "Men of Physics: Sir Arthur Eddington" (1966)[8]
  • "Rational Mechanics" (1966)[9]
  • Language, Logic, and Mathematics (1967)[10]
  • Exploring University Mathematics 2: Lectures Given at Bedford College. (1968)[11]
  • Nature of the Universe (World of Science) (October 18, 1971)[12]
  • General Theory of Relativity (Selected Readings in Physics) (November 1973)[13]
  • Relativistic Mechanics, Time and Inertia (Fundamental Theories of Physics) (December 31, 1984)[14]
  • Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation (July 1, 1986)[15]
  • "Russell (Philosophers in Context" (August 21, 1986)[16]
  • Radiation from Relativistic Electrons (American Institute of Physics Translation Series) (October 1986)[17]
  • Special Relativity for Physicists (December 1987)[18]
  • Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath (March 31, 1989)[19]
  • Combinatorial Physics (October 1995)[20]
  • Lagrangian Dynamics: An Introduction for Students (December 31, 1995)[21]
  • "Special Theory of Relativity" (January 2000)[22]
  • Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory: A Key to the Universe (July 7, 2005)[23]
  • The Origin of Discrete Particles (Series on Knots and Everything) (August 7, 2009)[24]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url= http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/05/31/death-of-clive-kilmister/ |title= Death of Clive Kilmister |accessdate= 2011-09-20 |last= Robinson |first= David |date= 2010-05-31 |work= hyperspace@aei |publisher= Max Planck Society |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110512010404/http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/05/31/death-of-clive-kilmister/ |archivedate= 2011-05-12 |df= }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=42259 |title= Clive William Kilmister |accessdate=2011-09-20 |work= The Mathematics Genealogy Project |publisher= North Dakota State University Department of Mathematics }}
3. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://old.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/394/394_09.html |title= Clive Kilmister Obituary |accessdate= 2011-09-20 |year= 2010 |page= Deaths |work= London Mathematical Society Newsletter |publisher= London Mathematical Society |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://archive.is/20120320023612/http://old.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/394/394_09.html |archivedate= 2012-03-20 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.stanford.edu/~pnoyes/ |title= ANPA Home Page |accessdate=2011-09-21 |year= 1997 |publisher= Stanford University }}
5. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister and B. O. J. Tupper |title= Eddington's Statistical Theory (Oxford Mathematical Monographs) |year= 1962 |publisher= Clarendon Press |asin= B0006AYA6O }}
6. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Hamiltonian Dynamics |year= 1964 |publisher= Wiley |asin= B0006BLRXC }}
7. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= The Environment in Modern Physics: A Study in Relativistic Mechanics |year= 1965 |publisher= American Elsevier |asin= B000V231Q2 }}
8. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Men of Physics: Sir Arthur Eddington |year= 1966 |publisher= Franklin Book Co. |asin=B000OGL5WM }}
9. ^{{cite book |authors= C. W. and J. E. Reeve Kilmister |title= Rational Mechanics |year= 1966 |publisher= American Elsevier |isbn= 0-582-44717-8 }}
10. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Language, Logic, and Mathematics |year= 1967 |publisher= Barnes & Noble |asin= B0006BQ1SI }}
11. ^{{cite book |authors= D. M. Burley, J. S. Griffith, J. H. E. Cohn, P. C. Kendall, B. Fishel, H. Kestelman, C. W. Kilmister, N. J. Hardiman |title= Exploring University Mathematics 2: Lectures Given at Bedford College |year= 1968 |publisher= Pergamon Press |ISBN= 0-08-203420-6 }}
12. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Nature of the Universe (World of Schience) |year=1971 |publisher= Thames & Hudson Ltd |ISBN= 0-500-08008-9 }}
13. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= General Theory of Relativity (Selected Readings in Physics) |year= 1973 |publisher= Pergamon Press |ISBN= 0-08-017639-9 }}
14. ^{{cite book |authors= E. Tocaci, Clive Kilmister, V. Vasilescu |title= Relativistic Mechanics, Time and Inertia (Fundamental Theories of Physics) |year= 1984 |publisher= Springer |ISBN= 90-277-1769-9 }}
15. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation |year= 1986 |publisher= Springer |ISBN= 90-277-2300-1 }}
16. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Russell (Philosophers in Context) |year= 1986 |publisher= Branch Line |isbn= 0-7108-1092-X }}
17. ^{{cite book |authors= A. A. Sokolov, I. M. Ternov, Clive Kilmister |title= Radiation from Relativistic Electrons (American Institute of Physics Translation Series) |year= 1986 |publisher= American Institute of Physics |ISBN= 0-88318-507-5 }}
18. ^{{cite book |authors= G. Stevenson and Clive Kilmister |title= Special Relativity for Physicists |year= 1987 |publisher= Dover Publications |ISBN= 0-486-65519-9 }}
19. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Schrodinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath |year= 1989 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |ISBN= 0-521-37929-6 }}
20. ^{{cite book |authors= Clive Kilmister and Ted Bastin |title=Combinatorial Physics |year= 1995 |publisher= World Scientific Publishing |ISBN= 981-02-2212-2 }}
21. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Lagrangian Dynamics: An Introduction for Students |year= 1995 |publisher= Springer |ISBN= 0-306-30368-X }}
22. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Special Theory of Relativity |year= 2000 |publisher= Elsevier Science Ltd. |isbn= 0-08-006995-9 }}
23. ^{{cite book |author= C. W. Kilmister |title= Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory: A Key to the Universe |year= 2005 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |ISBN= 0-521-01728-9 }}
24. ^{{cite book |authors= Clive Kilmister and Ted Bastin |title= The Origin of Discrete Particles (Series on Knots and Everything) |year= 2009 |publisher= World Scientific Publishing |ISBN= 981-4261-67-X }}

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