R. W. H. T. Hudson

R. W. H. T. Hudson
Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson
Born(1876-07-16)16 July 1876
Cambridge, England
Died20 September 1904(1904-09-20) (aged 28)
Devil's Kitchen, Twll Du Snowdonia, Wales
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of London
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
WorkplacesUniversity of Liverpool

Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.[1]

Hudson was born into a family of mathematical talents.[2] He was the oldest of four children of William Henry Hoar Hudson, Professor of Mathematics at King's College London,[1] and his mother read mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge.[3] Both of his sisters became mathematicians.[4]

Hudson read mathematics in St John's College, Cambridge, beginning in 1895, and became senior wrangler in 1898. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of St John's. He moved to University College, Liverpool as a lecturer in 1902, and defended a doctorate (D.Sc.) at the University of London in 1903.

In 1904, Hudson died in a mountaineering accident in Snowdonia at the age of 28.[1]

In 1905, his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface has gone on to become one of the most foundational texts in geometry.[5]

Publications

  • Hudson, R. W. H. T. (1905), Kummer's Quartic Surface, Cambridge University Press. Reprinted as part of the Cambridge Mathematics Library with an added foreword by R. Barth, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39790-1, MR 1097176.

References

  1. 1 2 3 F.S.M. (1904), "Obituary: R. W. H. T. Hudson", The Mathematical Gazette, 3 (47), The Mathematical Association: 73–75, doi:10.1017/S0025557200241454, ISSN 0025-5572, JSTOR 3603630
  2. ↑ J. L. (1917). "Professor W. H. H. Hudson". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. s2-15 (1): lii. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-15.1.1-w.
  3. ↑ "Hilda Hudson - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  4. ↑ Barrow-Green, June; Gray, Jeremy (2006), "Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940", Historia Mathematica, 33 (3): 315–56, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2005.09.002
  5. ↑ Hudson, R. W. H. T. (Ronald William Henry Turnbull) (1905). Kummer's quartic surface. University of California Libraries. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press.


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