Frank William Land (9 January 1911 in Edmonton, Middlesex – 2 June 1990 in Wrexham, Wales) was a populariser of mathematics and a

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. He was lecturer at the

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('Marjohn') in Chelsea with

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, whom he later followed to

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where he worked with

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. For a time during the Second World War he taught at the

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describes Land's book ''The Language of Mathematics'' as seminal in his intellectual development. One of his children is the neurobiologist Professor Michael F. Land.

Publications

* Land F.W. (1962) ''The Language of Mathematics'' John Murray, ASIN B0013FK5TW

References

20th-century British mathematicians 1911 births 1990 deaths {{UK-mathematician-stub