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John Purser

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Retrat pintat per la seva cosina Sarah Purser Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Biografia
Naixement24 agost 1835 Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Dublín (Irlanda) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Mort18 octubre 1903 Modifica el valor a Wikidata (68 anys)
Dublín (Irlanda) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
FormacióTrinity College (Dublín)
Activitat
OcupacióMatemàtiques
OrganitzacióQueen's College (Belfast)
Membre de
AlumnesJoseph Larmor, John Henry MacFarland, William McFadden Orr
Família
ParesJohn Tertius Purser i Anna Benigna Fridlezius

John Purser (1835-1903) va ser un matemàtic irlandès, professor del Queen's College de Belfast.[1]

Vida i Obra

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Fill de John Tertius Purser (1809-1893), director general de la coneguda cervesera Guinness,[2] Purser va créixer en una família rica, que incloïa artistes, com la seva cosina Sarah Purser, o enginyers, com el seu cunyat John Purser Griffith. Va estudiar al Trinity College (Dublín) on es va graduar en matemàtiques el 1856.

Els anys següents, Purser va ser tutor dels fills de William Parsons, comte de Rosse, Lawrence i Charles. El 1863 va ser nomenat professor de matemàtiques del Queen's College de Belfast, càrrec que va ocupar fins a jubilar-se el 1901.[3]

Purser és més conegut com a professor que per la seva recerca,[4] i va tenir un bon nombre d'alumnes destacats.[5]

Referències

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  1. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. «John Purser» (en anglès). MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
  2. Hughes, 2006, p. 37.
  3. Flood, 2006, p. 203-204.
  4. O'Connor & Robertson, MacTutor History of Mathematics.
  5. Newmann, Kate. «Professor John Purser (1835 - 1903): Academic and writer». A: Dictionary Of Ulster Biography, 2014 [Consulta: 10 juny 2017]. 

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