- Bartholomew Price
Bartholomew Price (
1818 -29 December 1898 ) was an Englishmathematician andeducator .He was born at
Coln St Denis ,Gloucestershire , in 1818. He was educated atPembroke College, Oxford , of which college (after taking a first class in mathematics in 1840 and gaining the university mathematical scholarship in 1842) he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845. He at once took a leading position in the mathematical teaching of the university, and published treatises on the "Differential calculus" (in 1848) and the "Infinitesimal calculus" (4 vols., 1852-1860), which for long were the recognized textbooks there. This latter work included the differential andintegral calculus , thecalculus of variations , thetheory of attractions , andanalytical mechanics .In 1853 he was appointed
Sedleian professor of natural philosophy , resigning it in June 1898. His chief public activity at Oxford was in connection with the hebdomadal council, and with theClarendon Press , of which he was for many years secretary. He was also a curator of theBodleian Library , an honorary fellow of the Queen's College, a governor ofWinchester College and a visitor ofGreenwich Observatory . In 1891 he was elected Master of Pembroke College, which dignity carried with it a canonry ofGloucester Cathedral . He also sems to have donated an interesting astronomical clock to Gloucester cathedral. He died in December 1898.See Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society (1899).Nowadays, Professor Price is best remembered as one of the teachers of
Lewis Carroll . There is a reference to his nickname of 'the bat' in theMad Hatter 's song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat ", a parody ofTwinkle Twinkle Little Star inAlice's Adventures in Wonderland .Writings
* [http://www.archive.org/details/essayonrelationo00pricrich An essay on the relation of the several parts of a mathematical science to the fundamental idea therein contained] (1849)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=yU9LAAAAMAAJ A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 1: Differential calculus] (1857)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/treatiseoninfini02pricuoft A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 2. Integral calculus and calculus of variations]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/treatiseoninfini03pricuoft A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 3. Statics attractions, dynamics of material particle]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=dh81AAAAIAAJ A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 4: The dynamics of material systems] (1862)References
*1911
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