H. F. Baker

Infobox_Scientist
name = Henry Frederick Baker


caption = Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956)
birth_date = birth date|1866|7|3|mf=y
birth_place = Cambridge, England
death_date = death date and age|1956|3|17|1866|7|3|mf=y
death_place = Cambridge, England
residence = United Kingdom
nationality = British
field = Mathematician
work_institution = University of Cambridge
alma_mater = University of Cambridge
doctoral_advisor = Arthur Cayley
doctoral_students = Jacob Bronowski
H. S. M. Coxeter
Edwin Maxwell
Daniel Pedoe
John A. Todd
known_for = Geometry
prizes = Sylvester Medal (1910)
De Morgan Medal (1905)
religion =
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Henry Frederick Baker (July 3, 1866 - March 17, 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups.

He was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in October 1884 and graduated Senior Wrangler in 1887, bracketed with 3 others. He was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.

In 1911, he gave the presidential address to the London Mathematical Society.

Works

* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umhistmath;idno=ACR3719 "Principles of Geometry"] (Cambridge: The University Press, 1922)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/abeltheoralltheor00bakerich Abel's theorem and the allied theory, including the theory of the theta functions] (Cambridge: The University Press, 1897)
* [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ACR0014.0001.001 An introduction to the theory of multiply periodic functions] (Cambridge: The University Press, 1907)
* 1943 "An Introduction to Plane Geometry"

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