| RefNo | EC/1889/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 160 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Basset, Alfred Barnard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Author of a Treatise on Hydrodynamics, in two volumes; published in 1888;
also of papers in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, the Messenger of Mathematics, the Philosophical Magazine, the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1888, and the American Journal of Mathematics. These papers treat of the motion of liquids about elliptic cylinders, of associated functions and spherical harmonics, of electric currents of a sheet rotating in a field of magnetic force, the potential of a spherical bowl, motion of a liquid ellipsoid, and stability of this motion, motion of two spheres in a liquid, potentials of circular discs, motion of a ring in a liquid, and of a number of cylinders in a liquid, motion of a sphere in a viscous liquid, and the steady motion of an annular mass of rotating liquid. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: N M Ferrers; J J Thomson; A R Forsyth; W M Hicks; J C Adams; P Frost
From Personal Knowledge: W H Besant; R T Glazebrook; G H Darwin; J W L Glaisher; A G Greenhill |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8117 | Basset; Alfred Barnard (1854 - 1930); mathematician | 1854 - 1930 |