University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals; ) is a Public university, public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the List of oldest universities in continuous ...
in Scotland was established in 1691. Previously, under
James VI
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Mathematics
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had been the responsibility of the Regents.
List of Mathematics Professors
* George Sinclair MA (1691–1696)
* Robert Sinclair MA MD (1699)
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Robert Simson
Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line is named after him.Rev Prof James Williamson FRSE MA DD (1761)
* James Millar MA (1796)
* James Thomson MA LLD (1832)
* Hugh Blackburn MA (1849)
* William Jack MA LLD (1879)
* George Alexander Gibson MA LLD (1909)
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Thomas Murray MacRobert
Thomas Murray MacRobert (4 April 1884, in Dreghorn, Ayrshire – 1 November 1962, in Glasgow) was a Scottish mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation ...
MA DSc LLD (1927)
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Robert Alexander Rankin
Robert Alexander Rankin FRSE FRSAMD (27 October 1915 – 27 January 2001) was a Scottish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.
Life
Rankin was born in Garlieston in Wigtownshire the son of Rev Oliver Rankin (1885–1954), minister ...
MA PhD DSc FRSE (1954–1982)
* Robert Winston Keith Odoni BSc PhD FRSE (1989–2001)
* Peter Kropholler (2003–2013)
* Michael Wemyss (2016–)
References
*''Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow''. Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond)
*https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1773&type=P
*https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~mwemyss/
Mathematics
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...