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Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS (17 April 1863,
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– 5 June 1940,
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), often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in ''Some Problems of
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'' won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of
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and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, used in problems related to Earth tides, the tidal deformation of the solid Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun.


Life and career

He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and in 1881 won a scholarship to
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, where he was at first undecided whether to study classics or mathematics. His successful progress (he was placed
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) vindicated his choice of mathematics, and in 1886 he was elected Fellow of the college. In 1899 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the
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, a position which he retained until his death in 1940. He was also a Fellow of Queen's College. He authored the two volume classic, '' A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity''. He was the author of several articles in the 1911 ''
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'', including Elasticity and Infinitesimal Calculus. His other awards include the
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Royal Medal in 1909 and
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in 1937, and the
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De Morgan Medal in 1926. He was secretary to the London Mathematical Society between 1895 and 1910, and president for 1912–1913.


Further reading

*A.E.H. Love, "Theoretical mechanics, an introductory treatise on the principles of theoretical dynamics", 1897, Cambridge University Press *A.E.H. Love, "Some problems of geodynamics", first published in 1911 by the Cambridge University Press and published again in 1967 by Dover, New York, USA.


See also

* Twist (differential geometry)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Love, Augustus Edward Hough 1863 births 1940 deaths People from Weston-super-Mare 19th-century English mathematicians 20th-century English mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy People educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School Royal Medal winners Second Wranglers De Morgan Medallists Geodynamics