William Henry Young
FRS (
London
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, 20 October 1863 –
Lausanne
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, 7 July 1942) was an
English mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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. Young was educated at
City of London School
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and
Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He worked on
measure theory,
Fourier series,
differential calculus, amongst other fields, and made contributions to the study of functions of several
complex variables. He was the husband of
Grace Chisholm Young, with whom he authored and co-authored 214 papers and 4 books. Two of their children became professional mathematicians (
Laurence Chisholm Young,
Cecilia Rosalind Tanner).
was named after him.
In 1913 he was the first to be appointed to the newly created chair of Hardinge Professorship of Pure Mathematics in
Calcutta University
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which he held from 1913 to 1917. He also held the part-time Professorship of Philosophy and the History of Mathematics at the
University of Liverpool
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from 1913 to 1919.
He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society
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on 2 May 1907.
He served as the president of the
London Mathematical Society from 1922 to 1924. In 1917 he was awarded the
De Morgan Medal
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of
London Mathematical Society and in 1928 the
Sylvester Medal
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of the Royal Society.
He served as the president of the
International Mathematical Union
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from 1929 to 1936.
Works
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* William Henry Young & Grace Chisholm Young (1906
The Theory of Sets of Points link from
Internet Archive
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.
References
External links
University of Liverpool: Papers of Professor William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young
19th-century British mathematicians
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
1863 births
1942 deaths
De Morgan Medallists
University of Calcutta faculty
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