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Authorised form of nameBurnside; William (1852 - 1927)
Dates1852 - 1927
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth02 July 1852
Place of deathWest Wickham
Date of death21/08/1927
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
MA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1893
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1904
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1928 vol 117 pp xi-xxv, plate, signed by A R F
CodeNA6254
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/Maull/000685Burnside, Williamnd
NLB/11/328Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons5 June 1895
NLB/10/713Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [William] Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1895
NLB/11/710Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Laurels, Hither Green Lane, S.E.23 September 1895
NLB/11/723Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Laurels, Hither Green Lane, S.E.25 September 1895
RR/17/322Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Functions of positive and negative type' by James MercerJanuary 1908
RR/16/56Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The differential invariants of space' by Andrew Russell ForsythJuly 1903
RR/16/60Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The third elliptic integral' by Alfred George GreenhillJanuary 1904
RR/16/400Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Mathematical concepts of the material world' by Alfred North WhiteheadOctober 1905
RR/16/275Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott and John Edward Campbell, on a paper 'The simple group of order 25920' by Professor William BurnsideJanuary 1906
RR/16/203Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The Basic-Gamma-Function and the Elliptic Functions' by Reverend F H JacksonDecember 1904
NLB/15/631Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1897
NLB/18/89Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A R Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society, Trinity College, Cambridge12 January 1899
NLB/16/790Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1898
NLB/20/629Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 June 1900
NLB/17/571Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Henry Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 November 1898
NLB/20/13Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society13 January 1900
NLB/24/238Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society9 April 1902
NLB/23/2/555Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1904
NLB/26/249Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to, Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society16 February 1903
NLB/25/179Copy letter from A H White, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society10 September 1902
NLB/28/74Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1904
NLB/32/51Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Niven, [Fellow of the Royal Society]17 December 1905
NLB/32/159Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee17 January 1906
NLB/32/225Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society1 February 1906
NLB/32/504Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee21 March 1906
NLB/33/751Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society30 October 1906
NLB/71/269Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Andrew Russell] Forsyth, FRS6 March 1928
NLB/36/5Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee23 July 1907
NLB/35/710Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Larmor, Secretary, Royal Society9 July 1907
NLB/34/906Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Committee23 March 1907
NLB/46/777Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society1 November 1912
NLB/60/336Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Burnside, FRS21 January 1921
NLB/56/204Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Son]16 December 1918
NLB/54/576Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Burnside, FRS25 June 1917
NLB/56/268Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Burnside, FRS3 January 1919
RR/14/105Letter from William Burnside, to Mr Harrison, regarding a paper 'On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker9 May 1898
RR/12/135Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On operations in physical mathematics. Part III' by Oliver Heavisidend [1894]
NLB/60/121Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William] Burnside, FRS11 December 1920
RR/12/282Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury6 February 1895
RR/14/269Detailed referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Sets of operations in relation to groups of finite order' by Alfred North Whiteheadnd [1899]
RR/17/239Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the theory of correlation for any number of variables, treated by a new system of notation' by George Udny Yule[February 1907]
RR/23/82Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the iteration of certain functions' by Ronald Ross23 July 1916
RR/15/370Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. XI. On the influence of natural selection on the variability and correlation of organs' by Karl PearsonFebruary 1902
RR/17/410Letter from William Burnside, on a paper 'The flight of a rifled projectile in air' by J B Henderson8 March 1909
IM/000686Burnside, William1922
NLB/71/64Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Burnside17 December 1927
NLB/41/463Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1909
RR/12/379Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the Abelian system of differential equations, and their rational and integral algebraic integrals, with a discussion of the periodicity of Abelian functions' by W R Westropp Roberts2 February 1895
NLB/28/124Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Augustus Edward Hough Love, Fellow of the Royal Society13 January 1904
NLB/36/775Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Burnside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematics Sectional Committee13 December 1907
EC/1893/02Burnside, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/16/258Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The asymptotic expansion of integral functions defined by Taylor's series' by Ernest William BarnesMay 1905
RR/14/268Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Sets of operations in relation to groups of finite order' by Alfred North Whiteheadnd [February 1899]
RR/12/283Second referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury7 February 1895
RR/13/76Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon22 January 1896
RR/13/77Letter from William Burnside, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon to the Secretary of the Royal Society31 January 1896
RR/14/106Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the connexion of algebraic functions with automorphic functions' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker9 May 1898
RR/16/53Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'The differential invariants of a surface, and their geometric significance' by Andrew Russell ForsythMarch 1903
RR/16/401Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'Mathematical concepts of the material world' by Alfred North Whitehead27 November 1905
MC/19/151Letter from [William] Burnside, The Croft, Bromley Road, Catford, to [Joseph] Larmor10 January 1904
MC/19/152Letter from [William] Burnside, The Croft, Bromley Road, Catford, to [Joseph] Larmor5 May 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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