Mathematician:Douglas Rayner Hartree

English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics.

Constructed a differential analyser using Meccano.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 27 March 1897 in Cambridge, England
 * Died: 12 February 1958 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Hartree (unit of energy)
 * Hartree-Fock Equations (with )

Publications

 * 1949: Calculating Instruments and Machines
 * 1952: Numerical Analysis
 * 1957: The calculation of Atomic Structures
 * 1958: