R. W. H. T. Hudson

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

R. W. H. T. Hudson
Born	16 July 1875 Cambridge, England
Died	20 September 1904 (aged 29) Snowdonia, Wales
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of London
Awards	Smith's Prize (1900)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Liverpool

Ronald W.H.T. Hudson was considered in his day to be the most gifted geometer in all of Cambridge. Hudson's life was cut short when he died in a mountaineering accident at the age of 28, but his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface allows mathematicians today access to his work.[1]

He was the son of W.H.H. Hudson, Professor of mathematics at King's College London. Hudson's sister, Hilda Hudson was likewise a gifted mathematician, being a graduate of Newnham, a lecturer at the University of Berlin, and ultimately being awarded the O.B.E. in 1919.[2]

Publications

• Hudson, R. W. H. T. (1990), Kummer's Quartic Surface, Cambridge Mathematical Library, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-39790-2, MR 1097176

References

1. https://archive.org/details/quarticsurface00kummrich%5B%5D
2. 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.

• Gardiner, Robert Barlow (1906), The admission registers of St. Paul's school from 1876 to 1905, London: Bell
• F.S.M. (1904), "Obituary: R. W. H. T. Hudson", The Mathematical Gazette, The Mathematical Association, 3 (47): 73–75, doi:10.1017/S0025557200241454, ISSN 0025-5572, JSTOR 3603630