Hilda Phoebe Hudson
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Hilda Phoebe Hudson (11 June 1881 Cambridge – 26 November 1965 London) was an English mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, in particular on
Life and work
In 1900 Hudson gained a scholarship and entered
She was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1912 at Cambridge UK.[2] Although Laura Pisati had been invited to the 1908 ICM, she died just before the start of the conference, so Hudson became the first female invited speaker at an ICM.[3]
She spent the academic year 1912–1913 at
Most of Hudson's pure mathematical research was concerned with surfaces and plane curves, her special interest being in Cremona transformations. Her 1916 monograph Ruler and Compasses[5] was well-received as "a welcome addition to the literature on the boundary between elementary and advanced mathematics".[6] Her 454-page 1927 treatise Cremona transformations in plane and space is considered by John Semple to be her magnum opus.[7]
Hudson was deeply religious, and a supporter of the Student Christian Movement. She sought, in her work, to understand the revelation of the glory of God in the beauty she found in mathematics. In later life, debilitated by arthritis, she moved into St Mary's Convent and Nursing home, an Anglican convent, where she died on 26 November 1965.[1]
Epidemiology
Hudson published work with Ronald Ross on epidemiology and the measurement of disease spread.[8][9] "The classical susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model, originated from the seminal papers of Ross and Ross and Hudson in 1916-1917 and the fundamental contributions of Kermack and McKendrick in 1927-1932, describes the transmission of infectious diseases between susceptible and infective individuals and provides the basic framework for almost all later epidemic models."[10]
Books
- Ruler and Compasses, first published as a monograph (Longman's Modern Mathematical Series, 1916) and then included in the compendium Squaring the circle and other monographs (Chelsea n.d.)
- Cremona Transformations in Plane and Space, Cambridge University Press, 1927.
References
- ^ a b c "Hudson, Hilda Phoebe". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 23 September 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Hudson, H. P. "On binodes and nodal curves". In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians (Cambridge, 22–28 August 1912). Vol. 2. pp. 118–121.
- S2CID 70349983.
- ISSN 0315-0860.
- ^ Hudson, Hilda P. (1916). Ruler and Compasses. London: Longmans, Green and Company.
- ^ Snyder, Virgil (1917). "Review of Ruler and Compasses by Hilda P. Hudson" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. pp. 377–378. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
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- PMID 24530806.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hilda Phoebe Hudson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Semple, J. G. (1969), "Hilda Phoebe Hudson", The Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1 (3): 357–359, MR 0246741
- A list of her papers can be found at Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Hilda Phoebe Hudson
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