- E. W. Hobson
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footnotes =Ernest William Hobson FRS (
27 October 1856 -19 April 1933 ) was an Englishmathematician , now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics frommathematical analysis . He was Sadleirian Professor at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1910 to 1931.He was born in
Derby , and was educated atDerby School , theRoyal College of Mines , andChrist's College, Cambridge , graduatingSenior wrangler in 1878. He became a Fellow of Christ's almost immediately after graduation. He made his way into research mathematics only gradually, becoming an expert in the theory ofspherical harmonics .His 1907 work on
real analysis was something of a watershed in the British mathematical tradition; and was lauded byG. H. Hardy . [http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/323/323_11.html lms newsletter] ] It included material ongeneral topology andFourier series that was topical at the time; and included mistakes that were picked up later (for example byR. L. Moore ).Works
*A Treatise on Trigonometry (1891)
*Theory of Functions of a Real Variable (1907)
*Squaring the Circle (1913)
*The Domain of Natural Science (1923)Gifford Lectures
*The Theory of Spherical and Ellipsoidal Harmonics (1931)ee also
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Tonelli-Hobson test References
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