Mathematician:Ian Naismith Sneddon
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Mathematician
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
Publications
- 1948: Wave Mechanics and its Applications (with N.F. Mott)
- 1951: Fourier Transforms
- 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: Fourier Series
- 1966: Mixed boundary value problems in potential theory
- 1969: Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity (with M Lowengrub)