Norman Macleod Ferrers
Norman Macleod Ferrers (11 August 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a British mathematician and university administrator.
Life
Ferrers was educated at Eton College before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1851. He was appointed to a Fellowship at the college in 1852, and was ordained in 1859. In 1880, he was appointed Master of the college, and served as vice-chancellor of Cambridge University from 1884 to 1885.[1]
He is remembered for pointing out a conjugacy in integer partition diagrams, which are accordingly called Ferrers diagrams and are closely related to Young diagrams.
Offices Held
Bibliography
- N.M. Ferrers, An Elementary Treatise on Trilinear Coordinates (London, 1861)
- N. M. Ferrers An elementary treatise on spherical harmonics and subjects connected with them (London, 1877)
- N.M. Ferrers (ed.), Mathematical papers of the late George Green, 1871
References
- ^ "Ferrers, Rev. Norman Macleod". Who Was Who 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Norman Macleod Ferrers", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- "(FRRS847NM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. missing
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