Mathematician:Percy Alexander MacMahon

Mathematician

British mathematician especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 26 September 1854 in Sliema, British Malta
• Died: 25 December 1929, Bognor Regis, England

Theorems and Definitions

• MacMahon Master Theorem
• MacMahon Squares
• MacMahon's Coloured Cubes
• MacMahon's Net

Results named for Percy Alexander MacMahon can be found here.

Publications

• 1902: (title unknown) (Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math. Vol. 33: pp. 274 – 288)

• 1915/16: Combinatory Analysis
• 1921: New Mathematical Pastimes

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Percy Alexander MacMahon": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive