Thomas Gaskin
Thomas Gaskin (1810–1887) was an English clergyman and academic, now known for contributions to mathematics.
Life
After being educated at Sedbergh School between 1822 and 1827, he was admitted a sizar of St John's College, Cambridge in 1827.[1] He was Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1831, behind Samuel Earnshaw.[2] He was then a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1832 to 1842, when he married. He became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1836, and of the Royal Society in 1839.[3] In 1840 Gaskin and his fellow examiner J. Bowstead unilaterally abolished the Tripos system of viva voce examinations in Latin, which had become an obsolete formality.[4]
Gaskin spent the latter part of his career as a private coach, moving to Cheltenham in 1855.[1][5]
Works
Gaskin is now remembered for his work on the equation for the
Gaskin published little original mathematics by the conventional route of the
Notes
- ^ a b "Gaskin, Thomas (GSKN827T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Alex D. D. Craik, Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (2008), p. 4; Google Books.
- ^ Obituary: List of Fellows and Associates deceased Gaskin, Thomas, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 48, p. 163, Bibliographic Code: 1888MNRAS..48R.161; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).
- ^ Craik, p. 90; Google Books.
- ^ A. J. Crilly, Arthur Cayley: mathematician laureate of the Victorian age (2006), p. 256; [1]
- ^ James Gasser (editor), A Boole Anthology: Recent and classical studies in the logic of George Boole (2000), pp. 168-73; Google Books.
- ^ Andrew Warwick (2003), Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, p. 156 with note 90, and p. 168.