TS "Stan" Broderick (22 May 1893 – 4 April 1962) was an Irish mathematician and academic who served as

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(1944-1962) at

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(TCD). He was the father of Irish academic

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Life and career

Timothy Stanislaus Broderick was born in Youghal, Cork. He studied mathematics at

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(BA 1913, MA 1916) where he won a

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Travelling Studentship Prize in 1916. He then went to TCD where he was a mathematics Scholar (1917) and got a BA in

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and

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(1918).The Dublin University Calendar
page 126 After teaching for a few years in

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in England, he was appointed to the staff at TCD, serving as Donegall Lecturer (1926-1943) and then

(1944-1962). In 1930 he became a Fellow of TCD, in 1958 a Senior Fellow, and in 1959 acting Vice Provost.

Selected papers

* Broderick, T. S.; Schrödinger, E. Boolean algebra and probability theory. ''Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. Sect. A'' 46, (1940). 103–112. * Broderick, T. S.; On proving certain properties of the primes by means of the methods of pure number theory. ''Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. Sect. A'' 46, (1940). 17–24. * Broderick, T. S.; On obtaining an estimate of the frequency of the primes by means of the elementary properties of the integers. ''J. London Math. Soc.'' 14 (1939). 303–310.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Broderick, Timothy Stanislaus Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Scholars of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Irish mathematicians People from Youghal 1893 births 1962 deaths Scientists from County Cork Alumni of University College Cork