Evan Tom Davies
Evan Tom Davies | |
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Born | manifolds | 24 September 1904
Spouses | Margaret Helen Picton, Hilda Gladys Boyens |
Children | 1 |
Scientific career | |
Doctoral advisor | Tullio Levi-Civita |
Evan Tom Davies (24 September 1904 – 8 October 1973) was a Welsh mathematician. He studied applications of the
Early life
Davies was born in 1904 in Pencader, Carmarthenshire, a small village in Wales. He was the son of two farmers and attended a local primary school. After finishing primary school, Davies received a full ride scholarship to Llandysul County School in the neighbouring town of Llandysul. There he became friends with Evan James Williams, a future professor of physics at Aberystwyth University and member of the Royal Society. In 1921, he enrolled in Aberystwyth University. He would graduate with a Bachelor of Science with honours in the field of applied mathematics. After graduation he went to Swansea University where he studied pure mathematics and received his master's degree. Davies would move to Rome in August 1926 to study with the leading expert on absolute differential calculus, Tullio Levi-Civita. There he received his doctorate.[1]
Career
In 1930, after a short academic break due to poor health, Davies accepted a position as an assistant lecturer at
Publications
- On the infinitesimal deformations of a space (1933)
- On the deformation of a subspace (1936)
- On the infinitesimal deformations of tensor submanifolds (1937)
- On the second and third fundamental forms of a subspace (1937)
- Analogues of the Frenet formulae determined by deformation operators (1938)
- Lie derivation in generalized metric spaces (1939)
- Subspaces of a Finsler space (1945)
- Motions in a metric space based on the notion of area (1945)
- The theory of surfaces in a geometry based on the notion of area (1947)
- On the invariant theory of contact transformations (1953)
- Parallel distributions and contact transformations (1966)
Personal life
Davies' first marriage was to Margaret Helen Picton in 1941, but she died a few years later in 1944. In 1955 he remarried, to Hilda Gladys Boyens, and they had one son. He made a hobby of linguistics and was fluent in five languages.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Evan Tom Davies". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ISBN 9781483272696. Retrieved 28 June 2015.