| Reference number | EC/1905/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 201 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Campbell, John Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Fellow and Tutor of Hertford College, Oxford, and Mathematical Lecturer in University College, Oxford. Distinguished as a mathematical investigator. Author of an 'Introductory Treatise on Lie's Theory of Continuous Transformation Groups' (Clarendon Press, 1903). Also of important original papers in advancement of this and allied mathematical theories, including 'On a Law of Combination of Operators bearing on the Theory of Continuous Groups' (two papers, Proc Lond Math Soc, vols xxviii, xxix); 'On the Theory of Simultaneous Partial Differential Equations' (ibid, vol xxxi); 'Proof of the third Fundamental Theorem in Lie's Theory of Continuous Groups' (ibid, vol xxxiii); 'On the Types of Linear partial Differential Equations of the second order in three independent variables which are unaltered by the Transformations of a Continuous Group' (Trans American Math Soc, vol i); and many others, contained in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society and the Messenger of Mathematics. |
| Proposers | W Esson; R B Clifton; H A Miers; E B Elliott; W Burnside; H F Baker; [J D Everett]; H W L Tanner; P A MacMahon |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1668 | Campbell; John Edward (1862 - 1924) | 1862 - 1924 |