Mathematician:Daniel Edwin Rutherford

Mathematician

Scottish mathematician who mainly worked on abstract algebra, vector analysis and fluid mechanics, among various others.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: July 4 1906, Stirling, Scotland
• Died: 9 Nov 1966, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

Publications

• 1932: Modular Invariants

• 1939: Vector Methods
  • 1957: Vector Methods, 9th ed.

• 1948: Substitutional Analysis

• 1951: Classical Mechanics
  • 1957: Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed.
  • 1964: Classical Mechanics, 3rd ed.

• 1959: Fluid dynamics

• 1965: Elementary Abstract Algebra (with Edward McWilliam Patterson)

• 1965: Introduction to lattice theory

Also known as

Known informally as Dan Rutherford.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Daniel Edwin Rutherford": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive