Robert Leslie Ellis
Robert Leslie Ellis | |
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Born | 1817 |
Died | 1859 | (aged 41–42)
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge Inner Temple |
Occupation | Literary editor |
Title | Reverend |
Robert Leslie Ellis (25 August 1817 – 12 May 1859) was an English polymath, remembered principally as a mathematician and editor of the works of Francis Bacon.
Biography
Ellis was the youngest of six children of Francis Ellis (1772–1842) of
Inheriting substantial
As a mathematician, Ellis founded the Cambridge Mathematical Journal with
Continental travel failed to restore Ellis' health. An attack of rheumatic fever at
Works
Ellis took on the editing of
Ellis's own major mathematical contributions were on functional and differential equations, and the theory of probability ("On the foundations of the theory of probabilitiesW, read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 14 February 1842; published in the fourth volume of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society of 1844). Philosophically, Ellis, like George Boole and later John Venn, defended an objective rather than subjective theory of probability.
William Walton edited a posthumous collection of both published and unpublished writings, in The mathematical and other writings of R. L. Ellis (1863): this was prefaced by a biographical memoir by Harvey Goodwin. Correspondence and notebooks of Ellis are amongst the Mayor Papers and Whewell Papers at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Leslie translated
Notes
- ^ "Ellis, Robert Leslie (ELS834RL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Catalogue entries for Ellis, Robert Leslie (1817-1859) mathematician
References
- Goodwin, Harvey (1863) "Biographical Memoir of Robert Leslie Ellis". In W. Walton, ed., The Mathematical and other Writings of R. L. Ellis.
- Kiliç, Berna (2000) "Robert Leslie Ellis and John Stuart Mill on the one and the many of frequentism", British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8:2.
- Panteki, Maria, "Ellis, Robert Leslie (1817–1859)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Verburgt, Lukas M. (2013) "Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory", Historia Mathematica 40:4.
- Verburgt, Lukas M. (2022) [1] A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817–1859. Springer.
External links
- Works by Robert Leslie Ellis at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Robert Leslie Ellis at Internet Archive
- Works by Robert Leslie Ellis at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Mathematical and Other Writings of Robert Leslie Ellis Edited by William Walton. With a biographical memoir by the Very Reverend Harvey Goodwin. (London: Deighton, Bell & Co., Bell and Daldy, 1863.)
- "Robert Leslie Ellis" entry at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive