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The Regius Professorship of Mathematics is the name given to three
chairs in mathematics at British universities, one at the
University of St Andrews
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, founded by
Charles II in 1668, the second one at the
University of Warwick
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, founded in 2013 to commemorate the
Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II and the third one at the
University of Oxford
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, founded in 2016.
University of St Andrews (1668)
From 1997 to 2015 there was no Regius Professor of Mathematics. In April 2013 the post was advertised, and in 2015
Igor Rivin was appointed. He was succeeded by
Kenneth Falconer in 2017.
List of Regius Professors of Mathematics
The following list may be incomplete.
* 1668โ1674
James Gregory
* 1674โ1688 William Sanders
[J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson (1996]
Mathematics in St Andrews to 1700
on the Website of the University of St Andrews; read 27. November 2015.
* 1689โ1690 James Fenton
* 1690โ1707 vacant
* 1707โ1739 Charles Gregory
* 1739โ1765 David Gregory
[J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson (2010]
on the website of the University of St Andrews; read 27. November 2015.
* 1765โ1807
Nicolas Vilant
* 1807โ1809 vacant
[J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson (2006]
Robert Haldane
MacTutor History of Mathematics; read 27. November 2015.
* 1809โ1820
Robert Haldane
Robert Haldane (28 February 1764 โ 12 December 1842) was a religious writer and Scottish theologian. Author of ''Commentaire sur l'รpรฎtre aux Romains, On the Inspiration of Scripture'' and ''Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans.''
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* 1820โ1858 Thomas Duncan
[Alex D. D. Craik (2008) ''Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century''; Springer.]
* 1857โ1858
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (; 5 June 1819 โ 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position o ...
[J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson (2005]
John Couch Adams
on the website of the University of St Andrews; read 27. November 2015.
* 1859โ1877 William L F Fischer
* 1877โ1879
George Chrystal
George Chrystal FRSE FRS (8 March 1851 โ 3 November 1911) was a Scottish mathematician. He is primarily know for his books on algebra and his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) which earned him a Gold Meda ...
* 1879โ1921
Peter Redford Scott Lang
* 1921โ1950
Herbert Westren Turnbull
Prof Herbert Westren Turnbull FRS FRSE LLD (31 August 1885 โ 4 May 1961) was an English mathematician. From 1921 to 1950 he was Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
Life
He was born in the Tettenhall district, o ...
* 1950โ1969
Edward Thomas Copson
* 1970โ1997
John Mackintosh Howie
* 1997โ2015 vacant
* 2015โ2017
Igor Rivin
*2017โpresent
Kenneth Falconer
University of Warwick (2013)
The creation of the post of the Regius Professor of Mathematics was announced in January 2013,
in March 2014
Martin Hairer was appointed to the position.
University of Oxford (2016)
The creation of the post of the Regius Professor of Mathematics was announced in June 2016
and
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awa ...
was appointed as the first holder of the chair in May 2018.
In August 2020, it was announced that the Regius Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Oxford will become a permanent fixture at
Merton College.
References
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Mathematics education in the United Kingdom
Mathematics Regius Professor
Professorships at the University of Oxford
Professorships in mathematics