William Henry Young
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William Henry Young FRS[1] (London, 20 October 1863 - Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[2] He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus amongst other fields, and made brilliant and long-lasting contributions to the study of functions of several complex variables. He was the husband of Grace Chisholm Young and father of Laurence Chisholm Young. Young's Therorem was named after him.[3]
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- ^ Hardy, G. H. (1943). "William Henry Young. 1863-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 4 (12): 306–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0005.
- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Young, William Henry". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William Henry Young", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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