Robert Russell (c. 1858–18 May 1938) was an Irish mathematician and academic at

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(TCD), who served as

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(1917-1921). Robert Russell was born in

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, and was educated at Santry School, Portarlington. He attended TCD, became a Scholar in 1877, and won the Brooke Prize, Bishop Law's Prize, McCullagh Prize, and Madden Prize.
TCD Bursar Dead
', Obituary of Robert Russell,

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, 5 May 1938, p. 14 He was awarded BA in mathematics (1880), became a Fellow a few years later, and got his MA (1888). In 1887, he was elected a member of the

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.Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 18
7 April 1887, p. 288 He spent his whole career at TCD, at various times serving as Junior Bursar, Junior Dean, Registrar of Chambers,The Dublin university calendar online
TCD and from the early 1920s on, Senior Bursar.REProfessors And Lecturers Of The University: Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics: 1917 Robert Russell, M.A.F3
The Dublin University Calendar He was

Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics 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 ...

(1904-1907), Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1917-1921), and became Senior Fellow in 1920.

Selected papers

Geometry of Surfaces Derived from Cubics
26 June 1899
Ruler Constructions in Connexion with Cubic Curves
24 April 1893
On a Theorem in Higher Algebra

The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics ''The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics'' was a mathematics journal that first appeared as such in 1855, but as the continuation of ''The Cambridge Mathematical Journal'' that had been launched in 1836 and had run in four volumes b ...

, Volume 21, 23 May 2016

References

19th-century Irish mathematicians 20th-century Irish mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Academics of Trinity College Dublin Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin 1858 births 1938 deaths People from Portadown People educated at Santry School {{Europe-mathematician-stub