George Frederick James Temple
George Frederick James Temple | |
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Birkbeck College, London B.Sc (1922) | |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Doctoral students | Susan Brown,[1] Alan B. Tayler |
Dom George Frederick James Temple
OSB (born 2 September 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician, recipient of the Sylvester Medal in 1969. He was President of the London Mathematical Society in the years 1951–1953.[3]
Temple took his first degree as an evening student at
Queen's College, Oxford
.
After the death of his wife in 1980, Temple, a devout
Benedictine order and entered Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight
, where he remained until his death.
Bibliography
- George Temple (1981) 100 Years of Mathematics: a personal viewpoint, ISBN 0-387-91192-8.
References
- ^ "Professor Susan Brown". University College London. 2 January 2018.
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- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Frederick James Temple", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
External links
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