Thomas Murray MacRobert
Thomas Murray MacRobert FRSE (4 April 1884, Dreghorn, Ayrshire – 1 November 1962, Glasgow) was a Scottish mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series.
References
- Biography of Thomas Murray MacRobert
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Thomas Murray MacRobert", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Rankin, Robert A. (1964), "Thomas Murray MacRobert", Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series, 39: 176–182, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-39.1.176, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0160703
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