Samuel Newby Curle

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(1930-1989) was a British mathematician. He served as Professor of Applied Mathematics at St Andrews University from 1967 until 1989. St Andrews University created the Curle Lecture in his memory.

Life

He was born in

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, on 18 June 1930 the son of Samuel Curle and his wife, Edith Newby Holmes. He attended Barnes School in Sunderland and then

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(now Sunderland College). He then attended Manchester University graduating BSc in 1951 and MSc in 1952. He received a PhD in 1955. In 1954 he began working at the National Physical Laboratory then in 1961 moved to the University of Southampton as a Reader in Mathematics. In 1967 he was given the Gregory Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews University. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1977. His proposers were Andrew G Mackie,

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, Douglas Samuel Jones and Donald C Pack. He died of heart disease on 27 June 1989 in Settle, North Yorkshire in England, and was buried in

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Family

In 1956 he married Shirley Kingsford Campion.

The Curle Lecture

In 2006 St Andrews University instituted the Curle Lecture in his memory. This is a biennial lecture on an entertaining way of presenting mathematical concepts. The first lecture 1089 and All That was given by Dr David Acheson of Jesus College, Oxford.

Publications

*''The Laminar Boundary Layer Equations'' (1962) reprinted 1965

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curle, Samuel Newby 1930 births 1989 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of St Andrews People educated at Bede Grammar School for Boys