Mathematician:Douglas Rayner Hartree

Mathematician

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 Atomic Units

• Hartree-Fock Equations (with Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock)

Results named for Douglas Rayner Hartree can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Douglas Rayner Hartree can be found here.

Publications

• 1949: Calculating Instruments and Machines

• 1952: Numerical Analysis
  • 1958: Numerical Analysis, 2nd ed.

• 1957: The Calculation of Atomic Structures

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Douglas Rayner Hartree": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive