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Authorised form of nameSalmon; George (1819 - 1904)
Dates1819 - 1904
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCork, County Cork, Ireland
Date of birth25 September 1819
Place of deathThe Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Date of death22/01/1904
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1833), MA (1844), BD and DD (1859)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; Donegal Lecturer in Mathematics (1848-1866); Professor of Mathematics; Regius Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Dublin (1866-1888); Provost of Trinity (1888-1902)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1863
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1868; Copley Medal 1889
RelationshipsOnly son of Michael Salmon, linen merchant, and his wife Helen, daughter of Rev Edward Weekes; married (1844) Frances Anne, daughter of Rev J L Salvador of Staunton, Herefordshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 347-355 signed by C J J
References:
Tony Crilly, 'The Young Arthur Cayley' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 267-282
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/100210233
CodeNA3512
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1863/13Salmon, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003991Salmon, George1892
AP/60/16/5Unpublished letter, regarding 'On the number of figures in the period of the reciprocal of each prime number between 100,000 and 110,000' from [George] Salmon to [the Secretary of the Royal Society]4 April 1879
NLB/3/1025Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Rev Dr George Salmon, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1889
NLB/3/872Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honorable C W Fremantle1 November 1889
NLB/3/876Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Rev Dr George Salmon, Fellow of the Royal Society31 October 1889
NLB/28/181Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]26 January 1904
RR/3/246Referee's report by Bartholomew Price, on a paper 'On curves of the third order' by George Salmon16 July 1858
RR/4/230Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On quaternary cubics' by George Salmon27 July 1860
RR/5/228Letter to George Salmon, regarding a paper 'On the calculus of symbols.— Fourth memoir. With applications to the theory of non-linear differential equations' by William Henry Leighton Russell19 February 1864
RR/6/67Referee's report by George Salmon, on two papers 'A memoir on the theory of reciprocal surfaces' and 'A memoir on cubic surfaces' by Arthur Cayley9 February 1869
RR/3/51Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'A memoir on curves of the third order' by Arthur Cayley31 January 1957
IM/003992Salmon, Georgend
AP/61/6/2Unpublished letter, regarding 'On the period of the reciprocal of every prime number between 110,000 and 120,000' from [George] Salmon to [the Secretary of the Royal Society]15 December 1880
PT/60/14Paper, 'On quaternary cubics' by Rev George Salmon[1860]
RR/3/245Referee's report by John Thomas Graves, on a paper 'On curves of the third order' by George Salmon21 July 1858
RR/5/229Referee's report by George Salmon, on a paper 'On the calculus of symbols.— Fourth memoir. With applications to the theory of non-linear differential equations' by William Henry Leighton Russell19 April 1864
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/6/332Letter from George Salmon, Trinity College Dublin, to the Royal Society11 June 1863
MC/8/267Letter from Geo [George] Salmon, Trinity College Dublin, to Wm [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 November 1868
AP/60/6Unpublished paper, 'Remarks connected with the number of figures in the periods of the reciprocals of prime numbers' by William Shanks29 October 1877
AP/57/4Unpublished table, 'The reciprocal of every prime between 30,000 and 40,000' by William Shanks1875
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
AP/71/3Unpublished paper, 'On the Abelian systems of differential equations, and their rational and integral algebraic integrals, with a discussion of the periodicity of their Abelian functions' by W R [William Ralph] Westropp Roberts1895
AP/60/16/3Unpublished manuscript, 'On the number of figures in the period of the reciprocal of each prime number between 80,000 and 100,000' by William Shanks29 October 1877-12 November 1877
AP/61/6Unpublished paper, 'On the period of the reciprocal of every prime number between 110,000 and 120,000' by William Shanks1880
RR/4/229Referee's report by William Spottiswoode, on a paper 'On quaternary cubics' by George Salmon20 July 1860
MC/15/49Letter from George Salmon, Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin, to George [Gabriel Stokes]1 November 1889
MC/15/50Letter from George Salmon, Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin, to the Royal Society2 November 1889
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
AP/60/16Unpublished paper, 'On the number of figures in the period of the reciprocal of each prime number between 60,000 and 110,000' by William Shanks1876-1879
AP/60/16/2Unpublished manuscript, 'On the number of figures in the period of the reciprocal of each prime number between 75,000 and 80,000' by William Shanks17 February 1877
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