Mathematician:Ian Naismith Sneddon

British applied mathematician who is most noted for his work researching elasticity.

Nationality
Scots

History

 * Born: 8 Dec 1919, Glasgow, Scotland
 * 1936: Entered the University of Glasgow
 * 1940: Graduated with First Class Honours in mathematics and physics
 * 1942: Part II of the Mathematical Tripos, assigned work at Cavendish Laboratory
 * September 1943: Married Mary Campbell Macgregor
 * 1946: Returned to Glasgow as a lecturer in physics
 * 1958: Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh
 * 1969: Awarded an OBE
 * 1983: Elected to Royal Society of London
 * Died: 4 Nov 2000 in Glasgow, Scotland

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1948: Wave Mechanics and its Applications (with N.F. Mott)
 * 1951: Fourier Transforms
 * 1956: Special functions of mathematical physics and chemistry
 * 1957: Elements of partial differential equations
 * 1960: An introduction to the mathematics of medicine and biology (with J G Defares)
 * 1960 and on: Translation into English of A course of higher mathematics (5 volumes) by V I Smirnov
 * 1961:
 * 1966: Mixed boundary value problems in potential theory
 * 1969: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity (with M Lowengrub)