R. W. H. T. Hudson

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R. W. H. T. Hudson
Born(1875-07-16)16 July 1875
Died20 September 1904(1904-09-20) (aged 29)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of London
AwardsSmith's Prize (1900)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool

Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.[1]

Hudson read mathematics in

senior wrangler in 1898. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of St John's. He moved to University College, Liverpool as a lecturer in 1902, and defended a doctorate (D.Sc.) at the University of London in 1903. He died in a mountaineering accident in 1904 at the age of 28,[1]
but his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface allows mathematicians today access to his work.

He was the oldest of four children of W.H.H. Hudson, Professor of mathematics at

O.B.E. in 1919.[2]

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