The Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

is one of two endowed mathematics positions at

(TCD), the other being the

Donegall Lectureship at Trinity College Dublin The Donegall Lecturership at Trinity College Dublin, is one of two endowed mathematics positions at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the other being the Erasmus Smith's Chair of Mathematics. The Donegall (sometimes spelt Donegal) Lectureship was e ...

. It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by

Erasmus Smith Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading ...

(1611–1691). Since 1851 the position has been funded by Trinity College. Some of the people listed here also held the

Erasmus Smith's Chair of Natural and Experimental Philosophy Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin is a chair in physics founded in 1724 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by Erasmus Smith, a wealthy London merchant, who l ...

for a period–that's another of the 4 named professorships honouring Smith's memory.

List of the professors

* 1762–1764: John Stokes (1720–1781) * 1764–1795: Richard Murray (1725?–1799) * 1795–1799: Thomas Elrington (1760–1835) * 1799–1800: George Hall (1753–1811) * 1800–1813: William Magee (1766–1831) * 1813–1822:

Bartholomew Lloyd Bartholomew Lloyd (1772–1837) was an Irish mathematician and academic whose entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin. As Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics there, he promoted significant curricular reforms, including the introdu ...

(1772–1837) * 1822–1825:

James Wilson James Wilson may refer to: Politicians and government officials Canada *James Wilson (Upper Canada politician) (1770–1847), English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada * James Crocket Wilson (1841–1899), Canadian MP from Quebe ...

(1774?–1829) * 1825–1835:

Franc Sadleir Franc Sadleir 'formerly'' Francis(1775–1851) was an Irish academic and Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1837. Biography Sadleir was the youngest son of Thomas Sadleir, barrister, by his first wife, Rebecca, eldest daughter of William Wo ...

(1775–1851) * 1835–1843:

James MacCullagh James MacCullagh (1809 – 24 October 1847) was an Irish mathematician. Early Life MacCullagh was born in Landahaussy, near Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Ireland, but the family moved to Curly Hill, Strabane when James was about 10. He was the e ...

(1809–1847) * 1843–1862: Charles Graves (1812–1899) * 1862–1879: Michael Roberts (1817–1882) * 1879–1913:

William Burnside :''This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920).'' __NOTOC__ William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early rese ...

(1839–1920) * 1914–1917: Stephen Kelleher (1875–1917) * 1917–1921: Robert Russell (1858?–1938) * 1921–1926: (vacant) * 1926–1943: Charles Rowe (1893–1943) * 1944–1962: TS (Stan) Broderick (1893–1962) * 1962–1964:

Heini Halberstam Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 oreen Halberstam, wife– 25 January 2014) was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968. ...

(1926–2014) * 1964–1966:

Gabriel Dirac Gabriel Andrew Dirac (13 March 1925 – 20 July 1984) was a Hungarian/British mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin 1964-1966. In 1952, he gave a sufficien ...

(1925–1984) * 1966–1989: Brian Murdoch (1930–2020) * 1989–2000: (vacant) * 2000–2001: Paul Feehan (born 1961) * 2001–2004: (vacant) * 2004–2008:

Adrian Constantin Adrian Constantin (born 22 April 1970) is a Romanian-Austrian mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations.Wittgenstein Preis 2020 to Adrian Constantin' Universität Wien: Fakultät für Mathematik, 17 ...

(born 1970) * 2008– : (vacant)

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List of the professors

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