Robert Russell (c. 1858–18 May 1938) was an Irish mathematician and academic at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

(TCD), who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1917–1921). Robert Russell was born in

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, and was educated at Santry School, Portarlington, County Laois. He attended TCD, became a Scholar in 1877, and won the Brooke Prize, Bishop Law's Prize, McCullagh Prize, and Madden Prize.
TCD Bursar Dead
', Obituary of Robert Russell, Evening Herald, 5 May 1938, p. 14 He was awarded BA in mathematics (1880), became a Fellow a few years later, and got his MA (1888). In 1887, he was elected a member of the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...

.Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 18
7 April 1887, p. 288 He spent his whole career at TCD, at various times serving as Junior Bursar, Junior Dean, Registrar of Chambers,The Dublin university calendar online
TCD and from the early 1920s on, Senior Bursar.REProfessors And Lecturers Of The University: Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics: 1917 Robert Russell, M.A.F3
The Dublin University Calendar He was Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics (1904–1907), Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1917–1921), and became Senior Fellow in 1920.

Selected papers

Geometry of Surfaces Derived from Cubics
26 June 1899
Ruler Constructions in Connexion with Cubic Curves
24 April 1893
On a Theorem in Higher Algebra
The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 21, 23 May 2016

References

19th-century Irish mathematicians 20th-century Irish mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Academics of Trinity College Dublin Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin 1850s births 1938 deaths People from Portadown People educated at Santry School Scientists from County Armagh Scholars and academics from County Armagh {{Europe-mathematician-stub