Robert Tucker (mathematician)

Robert Tucker (1832–1905) was an English mathematician, who was secretary of the London Mathematical Society for more than 30 years.

Robert Tucker
Born(1832-04-26)26 April 1832
Walworth, Surrey, England
Died29 January 1905(1905-01-29) (aged 72)
Worthing, England
Alma materSt. John's College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
InfluencesWilliam Kingdon Clifford

Life and work

Son of a soldier who fought in the Peninsular War, Tucker studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was 35th wrangler in 1855.[1] He mastered mathematics at University College London from 1865 to 1899.

He is known by the now known as Tucker circles, a family of circles invariant on parallel displacing.[2]

He is also known by his edition of the Mathematical Papers of William Kingdon Clifford in 1882.

Tucker acted as secretary of the London Mathematical Society from 1867 to 1902.[3]

He was also a collector of mathematician's photographs. His collection, named Tucker collection is preserved by the London Mathematical Society at De Morgan house.[4]

References
  1. Rice, Wilson & Gardner 1995, p. 420.
  2. Weisstein, MathWorld.
  3. Rice, Wilson & Gardner 1995, p. 413.
  4. O'Connor & Robertson, MacTutor History of Mathematics.

Bibliography
  • Clifford, William Kingdon (2007). William Tucker (ed.). Mathematical Papers. AMS Chelsea Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8218-4252-2.
  • Rice, Adrian C.; Wilson, Robin J.; Gardner, J. Helen (1995). "From Student Club to National Society: The Founding of the London Mathematical Society in 1865". Historia Mathematica. 22 (4): 402–421. doi:10.1006/hmat.1995.1032. ISSN 0315-0860.
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