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