Authorised form of name | Routh; Edward John (1831 - 1907) |
Dates | 1831 - 1907 |
Place of birth | Quebec, Canada |
Date of birth | 20 January 1831 |
Place of death | Cambridge |
Date of death | 07/06/1907 |
Dates and places | Burial: Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge |
Research field | Mechanics |
Mathematics |
Activity | Education: University College School; University College, London. BA (1849). Peterhouse, Cambridge. BA (1854, Senior Wrangler) Career: Went to England (at age 11); shared Smith's Prize (1854) with James Clerk Maxwell (FRS 1861); Fellow of Peterhouse; College Lecturer in Mathematics; Chief Mathematical coach, Cambridge; wrote on physics and mathematics Memberships: FRAS; FGS
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1872 |
Relationships | Son of Sir Randolph Isham Routh and his second wife Marie Louise; married (1864) Hilda, daughter of Sir George Biddell Airy (FRS 1836) |
Sources | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1910-1911 vol 84 pp xii-xvi signed by J L References: Nicholas Griffin and Albert C Lewis, 'Bertrand Russell's Mathematical Education' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 51-71 |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/61631216 |
Royal Society code | NA6367 |
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1872/06 | Routh, Edward John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
IM/003910 | Routh, Edward John | nd |
NLB/2/691 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 October 1888 |
NLB/3/410 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 June 1889 |
NLB/5/1010 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 December 1891 |
NLB/14/469 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton and Dr Edward John Routh, Fellows of the Royal Society | 16 March 1897 |
RR/15/172 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'Ellipsoidal harmonic analysis' by George Howard Darwin | May 1901 |
NLB/15/587 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Andrew Russell Forsyth, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 1 November 1897 |
NLB/23/1/146 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Mathematical Sectional Committee | 1 October 1901 |
NLB/24/680 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 June 1902 |
NLB/30/777 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Dr Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge | 22 May 1905 |
NLB/33/703 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society, Cambridge | 18[?] October 1906 |
NLB/33/560 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Edward John Routh, Fellow of the Royal Society, Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge | 1 October 1906 |
NLB/35/521 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 8 June 1907 |
RR/9/314 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson | 10 February 1885 |
RR/10/137 | Letter from Edward John Routh, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree | 15 October 1888 |
RR/12/383 | Referee's report by Ernest William Hobson, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh | 12 June 1895 |
RR/12/137 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On a spherical vortex' by Micaiah John Muller Hill | 10 February 1894 |
RR/13/46 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On a type of spherical harmonics of unrestricted degree, order, and argument' by Ernest William Hobson | March 1896 |
RR/12/385 | Referee's report by William Mitchinson Hicks, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh | 24 August 1895 |
RR/13/304 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On boomerangs' by Gilbert Thomas Walker | 17 May 1897 |
RR/7/223 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'Researches in the dynamics of a rigid body by the aid of the theory of screws' by Robert Stawell Ball | November 1873 |
IM/Maull/003911 | Routh, Edward John | nd |
NLB/15/556 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Andrew Russell Forsyth, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 October 1897 |
RR/10/140 | Second referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree | 22 December 1888 |
RR/10/363 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On the theory of free stream lines' by John Henry Michell | 8 February 1890 |
RR/12/384 | Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, on a paper 'Theorems on the attraction of ellipsoids for certain laws of force other than the inverse square' by Edward John Routh | 3 July 1895 |
RR/10/92 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'Some applications of dynamical principles to physical phenomena.—Part II' by Joseph John Thomson | 15 April 1887 |
RR/10/141 | Referee's report by Edward John Routh, on a paper 'On Aeolotropic elastic solids' by Charles Chree | 24 January 1889 |