Edwin Bailey Elliott

Not to be confused with Edward Bishop 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]

portrait of Edwin Bailey Elliott

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. 1908. 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