University of Glasgow
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in Scotland was established in 1691. Previously, under
James VI
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, the teaching of
Mathematics
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had been the responsibility of the Regents.
List of Mathematics Professors
* George Sinclair MA (1691-1696)
* Robert Sinclair MA MD (1699)
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Robert Simson
Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line is named after him.Rev Prof James Williamson FRSE MA DD (1761)
* James Millar MA (1796)
* James Thomson MA LLD (1832)
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Hugh Blackburn
Bailie Hugh Blackburn (; 2 July 1823, Craigflower, Torryburn, Fife – 9 October 1909, Roshven, Inverness-shire) was a Scottish mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Bla ...
MA (1849)
* William Jack MA LLD (1879)
* George Alexander Gibson MA LLD (1909)
* Thomas Murray MacRobert MA DSc LLD (1927)
* Robert Alexander Rankin MA PhD DSc FRSE (1954-1982)
* Robert Winston Keith Odoni BSc PhD FRSE (1989-2001)
* Peter Kropholler (2003-2013)
* Michael Wemyss (2016-)
References
*''Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow''. Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond)
*https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1773&type=P
*https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~mwemyss/
Mathematics
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Glasgow
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