| Reference number | EC/1932/16 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 133; A56298 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Turnbull, Herbert Westren: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Distinguished for mathematical researches, especially in Invariant-theory. Discovered complete irreducible system of invariants, covariants and contravariants of two quadrics in any number of variables, complete system of invariants of three quaternary quadrics, reduction of Gordon's system of 580 forms to 124 for two quaternary quadrics, direct symbolic method for dealing with any quaternary forms, generating function for multiple binary perpetuents, properties of matrix differential operators, theorems on compound determinants. Author of 'The Theory of Determinants, Matrices, and Invariants,' and of 29 memoirs. |
| Proposers | E T Whittaker; H F Baker; Herbert W Richmond; A R Forsyth; G N Watson; G H Hardy; H M Macdonald; L J Mordell; E A Milne; F S Macaulay |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6028 | Turnbull; Herbert Westren (1885 - 1961) | 1885 - 1961 |