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Encyclopedia > Joseph Wolstenholme

Joseph Wolstenholme (September 30, 1829 - November 18, 1891) was an English mathematician.


Wolstenholme was born in Eccles near Manchester, England. He became a professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, Egham near London from 1871 to 1889, and was the author of Mathematical problems.


He was a close friend of Leslie Stephen from his undergraduate studies at Cambridge. Virginia Woolf used his personality for the character Augustus Carmichael in her novel To the Lighthouse.


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External link

  • Biography (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Wolstenholme.html) from the University of St. Andrews

 

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