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Previous numbersCert XI, 38
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TitleNiven, Sir William Davidson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationWilliam Davidson Niven MA
Examiner in the Mathematical Tripos in 1871, 1873, 1874, and 1880
Author of the following papers: 1. "On the rings and brushes of Crystals" Quart Journ of Mathematics, vol xiii, pp 172-184 (1874), 2. "On the calculation of the trajectories of shot" Proc Roy Soc vol xxvi pp 268-287 (1876), 3. "On the theory of electric images and its application to the case of charged spherical conductors" Proc Lond Math Soc vol viii pp 64-83 (1876), 4. "On certain definite integrals occurring in Spherical Harmonic Analysis and on the expansion in series of the Potentials of the Ellipsoid and the ellipse" Philosophical Transactions, vol clxx pp 379-416 (1879), 5. "On the potential due to an electric current in an elliptic circuit", Messenger of Mathematics vol x pp 136-141 (1881), and of other papers published in same Journal.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: S Parkinson
From Personal Knowledge: J C Adams; Rayleigh; A Cayley; Henry J S Smith; I Todhunter; N M Ferrers; E J Routh; W H Besant; J W L Glaisher; J Hopkinson; E Dunkin
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Niven, Sir William Davidson: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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