Dr Horatio Scott Carslaw FRSE LLD (12 February 1870,

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– 11 November 1954, Burradoo,

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, Australia) was a Scottish- Australian mathematician. The book he wrote with his colleague John Conrad Jaeger, ''Conduction of Heat in Solids'', remains a classic in the field.

Life

He was born in

, Scotland, the son of the Rev Dr William Henderson Carslaw (a Free Church minister) and his wife, Elizabeth Lockhead. He was educated at

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. He went on to study at

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and then obtained a postgraduate doctorate at

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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1901. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and worked as a lecturer in Mathematics at Glasgow University, when in late 1902 he moved to Australia. In 1903, upon the retirement of Theodore Thomas Gurney, Carslaw was appointed Professor and the Chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the now School of Mathematics and Statistics at the

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. He retired in 1935 to his house in Burradoo where he produced most of his best work. The Carslaw Building at the University, completed in the 1960s and containing the School, is named after him. He died at home in Burradoo and was buried in the Anglican section of

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Cemetery.

Family

He married Ethel Maude Clarke (daughter of

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) in 1907 but she died later in the same year.

Works

''An introduction to infinitesimal calculus''
1905
''Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals and the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat''
London 1906
revised 2nd edn.
1921, published under the title ''Introduction to the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat in solids''; revised and enlarged 3rd edn. 1930, published under the title ''Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals''
''The Elements of Non-Euclidean Plane Geometry and Trigonometry''
London 1916 * with John Conrad Jaeger: ''Operational methods in applied mathematics'', 1941, 1948 * with Jaeger: ''Conduction of Heat in Solids'', Oxford 1947, 1959

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Horatio Scott Carslaw at the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
* 1870 births 1954 deaths People educated at the Glasgow Academy Australian mathematicians Scottish mathematicians University of Sydney faculty {{UK-mathematician-stub

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