Frank Smithies

Frank Smithies
Born	(1912-03-10)10 March 1912 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	16 November 2002(2002-11-16) (aged 90) Cambridge, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	FRSE
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Thesis	The Theory of Linear Integral Equations  (1937)
Doctoral advisor	G. H. Hardy
Doctoral students	Graham Allan E. N. Dancer Douglas Northcott Seymour Papert John R. Ringrose Dona Strauss Trevor West

Frank Smithies

(10 March 1912 – 16 November 2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of .

Publications

• Smithies, F. (1958), Integral equations, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, vol. 49,
  MR 0104991^[1]
• Smithies, F. (1997), Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory, Cambridge University Press,
  ISBN 0-521-59278-X^[2]

References

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Smithies", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• "Frank Smithies", The Times, Obituary

External links

• Works by F. Smithies at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frank Smithies at Internet Archive
• Frank Smithies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project