Mathematician:Norman Macleod Ferrers

Mathematician

English mathematician and university administrator, best known nowadays for Ferrers diagrams.

Nationality

English (half Scots)

History

• Born: 11 Aug 1829, Prinknash Park, Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire, England
• Died: 31 Jan 1903, Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Ferrers Diagram

Publications

• 1861: An Elementary Treatise on Trilinear Coordinates
• 1877: An Elementary Treatise on Spherical Harmonics and Subjects Connected With Them

As editor

• 1871: Mathematical papers of the late George Green

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Norman Macleod Ferrers": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive