| RefNo | EC/1936/01 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 202; A00051 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Aitken, Alexander Craig: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Distinguished for his researches in mathematics. Author of 43 papers, chiefly in algebra and statistics. In particular, discovered (1) a theory of duality which links determinental theory with the combinatory partition-theory and with group-character theory, (2) the transformation of the rational canonical form of any matrix into classical canonical form, (3) the concept of minimal vectors associated with a singular pencil of matrices, furnishing a method of great value, (4) a theorem of which most of the fundamental expansions of function-theory and interpolation-theory are special cases, (5) a final solution, theoretical and practical, of the statistical problem of polynomial representations. |
| Proposers | E T Whittaker; H W Turnbull; Alfred Young; C G Darwin; R A Sampson; C G Barkla; D'Arcy W Thompson; R A Fisher; G Udny Yule |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1487 | Aitken; Alexander Craig (1895 - 1967) | 1895 - 1967 |