| Authorised form of name | Todhunter; Isaac (1820 - 1884); mathematician |
| Dates | 1820 - 1884 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Rye, Sussex, England |
| Date of birth | 23 November 1820 |
| Place of death | At his residence, 6 Brookside, Cambridge |
| Date of death | 01 March 1884 |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Education:
University College, London. BA (1842), MA (London). St John's College, Cambridge. BA (1848, Senior Wrangler and 1st Smith's Prizeman)
Career:
Assistant Master at a school in Peckham; Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (1848); published books on mathematics; Principal Mathematical Lecturer, St John's College, Cambridge. and Mathematical Examiner to the Council of Military Education; died of paralysis
Memberships:
FRAS; FCPS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1862 |
| Relationships | Second son of George Todhunter, Independent Minister of Rye, Sussex, and his wife Mary Hume; married (1864) Louisa Anna Maria, daughter of Captain George Davies RN |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1884 vol 37 pp xxvii-xxxii signed by E J R
References:
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
Notes:
W Hopkins has signed election certificate twice |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/2554611 |
| Code | NA5349 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/7/18 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the proof of the law of errors of observations' by Morgan William Crofton | 9 November 1869 |
| RR/7/240 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the algebraical analogues of logical relations' by Alexander John Ellis | 7 June 1873 |
| RR/8/174 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the conduction of heat in ellipsoids of revolution' by William Davidson Niven | 11 July 1879 |
| RR/8/173 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On certain definite integrals occurring in spherical harmonic analysis and on the expansion, in series, of the potentials of the ellipsoid and the ellipse' by William Davidson Niven | 14 May 1879 |
| EC/1862/15 | Todhunter, Isaac: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/7/75 | Referee's report by Bartholomew Price, on a paper 'On Jacobi's theorem respecting the relative equilibrium of a revolving ellipsoid of fluid, and on ivory's discussion of the theorem' by Isaac Todhunter | 4 May 1870 |
| RR/7/74 | Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On Jacobi's theorem respecting the relative equilibrium of a revolving ellipsoid of fluid, and on ivory's discussion of the theorem' by Isaac Todhunter | 19 February 1870 |
| RR/7/177 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'Contributions to formal logic' by Alexander John Ellis | 1872 |
| RR/6/89 | Referee's report by Isaac Todhunter, on a paper 'On the theory of local probability, applied to straight lines drawn at random in a plane; the methods used being also extended to the proof of certain new theorems in the integral calculus' by Morgan William Crofton | 7 April 1868 |