Micaiah John Muller Hill
FRS (1856–1929) was an English mathematician, known for
Hill's spherical vortex and
Hill's tetrahedra.
He was born on 22 February 1856 in
Bengal
Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
, India, the son of Revd. Samuel John Hill (1825–1881) and Leonora Josephina Muller (1833–1917).
Hill received a bachelor's degree in 1873 and an M.A. in 1876 from
University College, London
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, type = Public research university
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. In 1880–1884 he was a professor of mathematics at
Mason College
Mason Science College was a university college in Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of Birmingham University. Founded in 1875 by industrialist and philanthropist Sir Josiah Mason, the college was incorporated into the University o ...
(which later became
Birmingham University
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). In 1891 he earned his Sc.D. from
Cambridge University
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. From 1884 to 1907 he was Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College, London and from 1907 to 1923 Astor Professor of Mathematics, University of London.
In 1894 Hill was elected FRS. In 1926 and 1927 he served as president of the
Mathematical Association
The Mathematical Association is a professional society concerned with mathematics education in the UK.
History
It was founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching and renamed to the Mathematical Association in ...
.
Hill was one of the people to whom C. L. T. Griffith sent, in 1912, some of Ramanujan's work.
He married Minnie Grace Tarbotton, daughter of
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton MICE, FGS, FRMS, was born in Leeds on 6 December 1834 and died in Nottingham on 6 March 1887. He was Borough Engineer for Nottingham from 1859.
Career
Tarbotton was Borough Engineer at Wakefield from 1855 until he was ap ...
at St Saviour's Church, Paddington on 21 December 1892.
His two sons were
Roderic Hill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Maxwell Hill, (1 March 1894 – 6 October 1954) was a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War. He was a former Rector of Imperial College and Vice-Chancellor of London University. The Departmen ...
and
Geoffrey T. R. Hill
Geoffrey Terence Roland Hill, (1895 – 26 December 1955) was a British aviator and aeronautical engineer.
Early life
Geoffrey Terence Roland Hill was born in 1895, the son of Michael J. M. Hill, Professor of Mathematics at the University Colleg ...
.
See also
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List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
References
External links
Professor M. J. M. Hill, FRS, Vice-Chancellor of London University (1909-1911) by John Wheatley (painting provided by BBC)
1856 births
1929 deaths
19th-century English mathematicians
20th-century English mathematicians
Fellows of the Royal Society
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Alumni of University College London
Academics of University College London
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
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