William Spottiswoode
1825 - 1883
- Born
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11 January 1825
London, England
- Died
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27 June 1883
41 Grosvenor Place, London, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 02/06/1853
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 28
- Occupation
- Mathematician, physicist, and partner in eyre and spottiswoode
- Relationships
- Parents: Andrew Spottiswoode (1787–1866), printer, member of parliament for Saltash (1826–30), Colchester (1830–31), lived at no. 17 Carlton House Terrace (1840-1847) , and Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Norton Longman, the publisher. Spouse: Eliza Taylor Arbuthnot, of Bexley, Kent, daughter of William Urquhart Arbuthnot, member of the Council for India. Children: William Hugh Spottiswoode; Cyril Andrew Spottiswoode.
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Researches on the theory of invariants' by William Spottiswoode
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: AP/37/21 -
Paper, 'On certain geometrical theorems, No. 1' by W H L [William Henry Leighton] Russell
Creator: William Henry Leighton Russell, William Spottiswoode Reference number: PP/1/16 -
Paper, 'Note on W [William Henry Leighton] Russell's paper "On certain definite integrals, No. 10"' by William Spottiswoode
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: PP/1/28 -
Paper, 'On the movement of gas in "vacuum discharges"' by William Spottiswoode and J [John] Fletcher Moulton
Creator: William Spottiswoode, John Fletcher Moulton Reference number: PP/1/40 -
Paper, 'Note on W [William Henry Leighton] Russell's paper "On certain geometrical theorems, No. 2"' by William Spottiswoode
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: PP/2/6 -
Paper, 'On an extended form of the index symbol in the calculus of operations' by William Spottiswoode
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: PT/60/2
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On a class of differential equations, including those which occur in dynamical problems.- Part I' by William Fishburn Donkin
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/2/60 -
Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On a class of differential equations, including those which occur in dynamical problems. - Part II' by William Fishburn Donkin
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/2/63 -
Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On a theory of the syzygetic relations of two rational integral functions, comprising an application to the theory of Sturm’s functions, and that of the greatest algebraical common measure' by James Joseph Sylvester
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/2/233 -
Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On a theory of the syzygetic relations of two rational integral functions, comprising an application to the theory of Sturm’s functions, and that of the greatest algebraical common measure [supplement]' by James Joseph Sylvester
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/2/234 -
Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'Third memoir upon caustics' by Arthur Cayley
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/3/47 -
Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on four papers 'Fourth and fifth memoirs on quantics'; 'On the tangential of a cubic'; 'On the surface which is the envelope of planes through the points of an ellipsoid at right angles to the radius vectors from the centre' by Arthur Cayley
Creator: William Spottiswoode Reference number: RR/3/58
Recipient of
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Letter from Andrew Noble, on a paper 'Chemical theory of gunpowder' by Heinrich Debus to William Spottiswoode
Creator: Andrew Noble Reference number: RR/9/8
