Frank Smithies

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soc ...

(1912–2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smithies, Frank 20th-century British mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912 births 2002 deaths Mathematical analysts Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Scientists from Edinburgh British historians of mathematics