Mathematician:Louis Melville Milne-Thomson

Mathematician

English applied mathematician who wrote several classic textbooks on applied mathematics.

Developed several mathematical tables.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 1 May 1891 in Ealing, London, England
• Died: 21 August 1974 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Milne-Thomson Circle Theorem
• Milne-Thomson Method

Publications

• 1931: Standard Four Figure Mathematical Tables (with L.J. Comrie)
• 1932: Standard Table of Square Roots
• 1932: Jacobian Elliptic Function Tables
• 1933: The Calculus of Finite Differences
• 1938: Theoretical Hydrodynamics
• 1948: Theoretical Aerodynamics

Contributor to:

• 1964: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Louis Melville Milne-Thomson": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive