Edwin Bailey Elliott

Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS[1] (born 1 June 1851, Oxford, England; died 21 July 1937 in Oxford, England) was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory. In 1892 he was appointed Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford.[2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote the book An introduction to the algebra of quantics, on invariant theory (Elliott 1913).[3]

Publications

• Elliott, Edwin Bailey (1913) [1895], An introduction to the algebra of quantics. (2nd ed.), Oxford. Clarendon Press, JFM 26.0135.01[4][5]

References

1. Turnbull, H. W. (1938). "Edwin Bailey Elliott. 1851-1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 424–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0026.
2. "Chairs and Professors of Universities in the United Kingdom". Who's Who Year-book for 1905. p. 138.
3. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Bailey Elliott", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
4. "Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott". The Athenaeum (3560): 90. 18 January 1896.
5. Leib, D. D. (1914). "Review of An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by E. B. Elliott". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21: 132–133. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02599-6.

Bibliography

• Deaths. The Times, Jul 23, 1937; Issue 47744; pg. 1; col A