Mathematician:Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins

Mathematician

English mathematician and oceanographer.

Introduced the theory of the origin of microseisms.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 8 December 1925 in Lenham, England
• Died: 26 February 2016 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Longuet-Higgins Point
• Longuet-Higgins Circle

• Rhombo-Blocks

Definitions of concepts named for Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins can be found here.

Publications

• 1954: Uniform polyhedra (Phil. Trans. Ser. A Vol. 246: p. 401) (with H.S.M. Coxeter and J.C.P. Miller)
• 2001: On the Principal Centers of a Triangle (Elem. Math. Vol. 56: pp. 122 – 129)