Mathematician:Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Mathematician

English professor of physics, known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.

Author of the $1910$ text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print.


Nationality

English


History

  • Born: 19 June 1851 in York, England
  • Died: 12 June 1916


Inventions


Publications

  • 1890: Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism
  • 1896: Dynamo Electrical Machinery
  • 1910: Calculus Made Easy
  • 1912: The first English translation of Christiaan Huygens' 1690 work Treatise on Light