Horatio Scott Carslaw

Dr Horatio Scott Carslaw FRSE LLD (12 February 1870, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland – 11 November 1954, Burradoo, New South Wales, Australia) was a Scottish-Australian mathematician.[1][2] The book he wrote with his colleague John Conrad Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, remains a classic in the field.

Life

He was born in Helensburgh the son of the Rev Dr William Henderson Carslaw[3] (a Free Church minister) and his wife, Elizabeth Lockhead.[1] He was educated at The Glasgow Academy. He went on to study at Cambridge University and then obtained a postgraduate doctorate at Glasgow University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1901.[4]

In 1903, upon the retirement of Theodore Thomas Gurney,[5] Carslaw was appointed Professor and the Chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the now School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. He retired in 1935[6] to his house in Burradoo where he produced most of his best work.[1] The Carslaw Building at the University, completed in the 1960s and containing the School, is named after him.[7]

He died at home in Burradoo and was buried in the Anglican section of Bowral Cemetery.[1]

Family

He married Ethel Maude Clarke (daughter of Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet[1])in 1907 but she died later in the same year.[4]

Works

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Jaeger, J. C. (1979). "Carslaw, Horatio Scott (1870–1954)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 7. Canberra: Australian National University.
  2. ↑ "Carslaw, Horatio Scott (CRSW891HS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Carslaw.html
  4. 1 2 https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  5. ↑ "Gurney, Theodore Thomas (GNY869)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ↑ http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/About/
  7. ↑ http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/About/Carslaw.html
  8. ↑ Moore, Charles N. (1923). "Review: H. S. Carslaw, Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Heat in Solids". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (7): 326–327. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1923-03740-3.
  9. ↑ Moore, C. N. (1931). "Review: H.S. Carslaw, Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals, and Werner Rogosinski, Fouriersche Reihen". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 37 (7): 510–511. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1931-05176-4.
  10. ↑ Bateman, H. (1942). "Review: H. S. Carslaw and J. C. Jaeger, Operational Methods in Applied Mathematics". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (7): 510–511. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1942-07701-9.
  • Works by or about Horatio Scott Carslaw at Internet Archive
  • Horatio Scott Carslaw at the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Horatio Scott Carslaw", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .


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