Dr Horatio Scott Carslaw FRSE LLD (12 February 1870, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland – 11 November 1954, Burradoo, New South Wales, Australia) was a Scottish-Australian mathematician.[1][2] The book he wrote with his colleague John Conrad Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, remains a classic in the field.
Life
editHe was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the son of the Rev Dr William Henderson Carslaw[3] (a Free Church minister) and his wife, Elizabeth Lockhead.[1] He was educated at The Glasgow Academy. He went on to study at Cambridge University and then obtained a postgraduate doctorate at Glasgow University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1901.[4] He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and worked as a lecturer in Mathematics at Glasgow University, when in late 1902 he moved to Australia.[5]
In 1903, upon the retirement of Theodore Thomas Gurney,[6] Carslaw was appointed Professor and the Chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the now School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. He retired in 1935[7] to his house in Burradoo where he produced most of his best work.[1] The Carslaw Building at the University, completed in the 1960s and containing the School, is named after him.[8]
He died at home in Burradoo and was buried in the Anglican section of Bowral Cemetery.[1]
Family
editHe married Ethel Maude Clarke (daughter of Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet[1]) in 1907 but she died later in the same year.[4]
Works
edit- An introduction to infinitesimal calculus, 1905
- Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals and the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, London 1906, revised 2nd edn. 1921, published under the title Introduction to the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat in solids;[9] revised and enlarged 3rd edn. 1930, published under the title Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals[10]
- The Elements of Non-Euclidean Plane Geometry and Trigonometry, London 1916
- with John Conrad Jaeger: Operational methods in applied mathematics, 1941,[11] 1948
- with Jaeger: Conduction of Heat in Solids, Oxford 1947, 1959
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e Jaeger, J. C. (1979). "Carslaw, Horatio Scott (1870–1954)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 7. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
- ^ "Carslaw, Horatio Scott (CRSW891HS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Horatio Carslaw - Biography".
- ^ a b C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36919. London. 7 November 1902. p. 3.
- ^ "Gurney, Theodore Thomas (GNY869)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "About the School".
- ^ "Our home".
- ^ Moore, Charles N. (1923). "Review: H. S. Carslaw, Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Heat in Solids". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (7): 326–327. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1923-03740-3.
- ^ Moore, C. N. (1931). "Review: H.S. Carslaw, Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals, and Werner Rogosinski, Fouriersche Reihen". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 37 (7): 510–511. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1931-05176-4.
- ^ Bateman, H. (1942). "Review: H. S. Carslaw and J. C. Jaeger, Operational Methods in Applied Mathematics". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (7): 510–511. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1942-07701-9.
External links
edit- Works by or about Horatio Scott Carslaw at the Internet Archive
- Horatio Scott Carslaw at the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Horatio Scott Carslaw", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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