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Authorised form of nameWalker; John James (1825 - 1900)
Dates1825 - 1900
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKennington, Surrey, England
Date of birth02 October 1825
Place of deathHampstead, London
Date of death15/02/1900
Research fieldMathematics
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1849), MA (1857)
Career:
Private tutor to the Guiness family (1853-1862); Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Unviersity College School, London (1865); Vice-Principal and mathematics Tutor, University Hall, London (1868-1882)
Memberships:
LMS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1883
RelationshipsSon of John Walker, schoolmaster; married Emma, daughter of William Turner of Newcastle
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 93-94 signed by S R
CodeNA6662
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/2/38Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John James Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society13 December 1887
NLB/2/271Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John James Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society21 March 1888
NLB/20/212Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Samuel Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Society, 27 Nassington Road, Hampstead, N.W.26 February 1900
NLB/20/186Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons20 February 1900
RR/10/101Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the diameters of a plane cubic' by John James Walker1 August 1887
RR/10/103Referee's report by Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, on a paper 'On the diameters of a plane cubic' by John James Walker29 October 1887
EC/1883/16Walker, John James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/10/104Second referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the diameters of a plane cubic' by John James Walker22 November 1887
RR/10/102Detailed referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the diameters of a plane cubic' by John James Walkernd [1887]
RR/10/105Second referee's report by Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, on a paper 'On the diameters of a plane cubic' by John James Walker24 November 1887
PP/10/43Paper, 'Preliminary notice on the diameters of plane cubics' by John James Walker1887
PP/22/12Paper, 'On the displacement of a rigid body in space by rotations: Preliminary note' by John James Walker18 May 1893
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