Edwin Bailey Elliott
{{Short description|British mathematician (1851–1937)}}
{{Distinguish|Edward Bishop Elliott}}
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Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Turnbull | first1 = H. W. | title = Edwin Bailey Elliott. 1851-1937 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1938.0026 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 2 | issue = 6 | pages = 424–426 | year = 1938 }} (born 1 June 1851, Oxford, England;
died 21 July 1937 in Oxford, England) was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory. In 1892 he was appointed Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford.{{cite book|chapter=Chairs and Professors of Universities in the United Kingdom|title=Who's Who Year-book for 1905|year=1908|page=138|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138}} He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote the book An introduction to the algebra of quantics, on invariant theory {{harv|Elliott|1913}}.{{MacTutor Biography |id=Elliott}}
Publications
- {{Citation | last1=Elliott | first1=Edwin Bailey | title=An introduction to the algebra of quantics. | orig-year=1895 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Az5tAAAAMAAJ | publisher=Oxford. Clarendon Press | edition=2nd | jfm=26.0135.01 | year=1913}}{{cite journal|title=Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott|journal=The Athenaeum|date=18 January 1896|issue=3560|page=90|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c3469032;view=1up;seq=106}}{{cite journal|title=Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by E. B. Elliott|author=Leib, D. D.|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=21|year=1914|pages=132–133|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02599-6|doi-access=free}}
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Category:English mathematicians
Category:People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford