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

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, 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

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. In 1880–1884 he was a professor of mathematics at

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(which later became

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). In 1891 he earned his Sc.D. from

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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

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. 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 at St Saviour's Church, Paddington on 21 December 1892. His two sons were Roderic Hill 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 ...

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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 {{UK-mathematician-stub

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