Percival Frost
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Percival Frost (1817–1898), was an English mathematician.
Life
Percival Frost was born at
He was a man of wide interests and varied attainments, an accomplished pianoforte player, and a successful painter in water-colours. On 2 June 1841 he was married at Finchley to Jennett Louisa, daughter of Richard Dixon of Oak Lodge, Finchley.
In 1854, Frost edited the first three sections of
On 7 June 1883, Frost was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year he was elected by King's College, Cambridge, to a fellowship, which he retained until his death. In 1883 Frost proceeded to the recently established degree of Doctor of Science.
Frost died at Cambridge on 5 June 1898, at his house in Fitzwilliam Street, and was buried on 10 June in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.
Besides the works already mentioned, Frost was the author of numerous papers in the
Works
- 1854: Newton's Principia, sections I, II, III with Notes and Illustrations and a Collection of Problems, link from Internet Archive.
- 1863: (with Hathitrust
- 1872: An Elementary Treatise on Curve Tracing, link from HathiTrust.
References
- ^ "Frost, Percival (FRST835P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Sydney Lee (editor) (1901) Supplement to Dictionary of National Biography, volume 2, see Percival Frost.
- Editor (December 1898) "Percival Frost", The Eagle.
- Victor Plarr (1895) Men and Women of the Time: a dictionary of contemporaries.