British mathematician (1866–1956)
Henry Frederick Baker FRS [ 2] FRSE (3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a Britishmathematician , working mainly inalgebraic geometry , but also remembered for contributions topartial differential equations (related to what would become known assolitons ), andLie groups .[ 3]
He was born inCambridge the son of Henry Baker, a butler, and Sarah Ann Britham.[ 4]
He was educated atThe Perse School before winning a scholarship toSt John's College, Cambridge in October 1884. Baker graduated asSenior Wrangler in 1887, bracketed with 3 others. His doctoral advisor wasArthur Cayley .[ 5]
Baker was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.
In June 1898, he was elected aFellow of the Royal Society .[ 2] London Mathematical Society .
Baker was one of the mathematicians (along with E. W. Hobson) to whom Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote before G. H. Hardy but his papers were returned without comment.
In January 1914, he was appointedLowndean Professor of Astronomy .
Gordon Welchman recalled that in the 1930s before the warDennis Babbage and he were members of a group of geometers known as Professor Baker's "Tea Party", who met once a week to discuss the areas of research in which we were all interested.[ 6]
He married twice. Firstly in 1893, to Lilly Isabella Hamfield Klopp, who died in 1903, then he remarried in 1913, to Muriel Irene Woodyard.
He died in Cambridge and is buried at theAscension Parish Burial Ground , with his second wife Muriel (1885–1956).
Baker, Henry Frederick (1922),Principles of geometry. Volume 1. Foundations Cambridge University Press ,doi :10.1017/CBO9780511718267.007 ,ISBN 978-1-108-01777-0 MR 2849917 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] Baker, Henry Frederick (1922),Principles of geometry. Volume 2. Plane geometry, Conics, circles, non-Euclidean geometry Cambridge University Press ,doi :10.1017/CBO9780511718298.009 ,ISBN 978-1-108-01778-7 MR 2857757 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] [ 8] Baker, Henry Frederick (1923),Principles of geometry. Volume 3. Solid geometry. Quadrics, cubic curves in space, cubic surfaces. Cambridge University Press ,ISBN 978-1-108-01779-4 MR 2857520 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] [ 9] Baker, Henry Frederick (1925),Principles of geometry. Volume 4. Higher geometry. Being illustrations of the utility of the consideration of higher space, especially of four and five dimensions Cambridge University Press ,ISBN 978-1-108-01780-0 MR 2849669 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] Baker, Henry Frederick (1933),Principles of geometry. Volume 5. Analytical principles of the theory of curves Cambridge University Press ,ISBN 978-1-108-01781-7 MR 2850139 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] Baker, Henry Frederick (1933),Principles of geometry. Volume 6. Introduction to the theory of algebraic surfaces and higher loci. Cambridge University Press ,ISBN 978-1-108-01782-4 MR 2850141 {{citation }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) [ 7] Abel's theorem and the allied theory, including the theory of the theta functions (Cambridge: The University Press, 1897)An introduction to the theory of multiply periodic functions (Cambridge: The University Press, 1907)1943An Introduction to Plane Geometry ^a b Henry F. Baker at theMathematics Genealogy Project ^a b Hodge, W. V. D. (1956)."Henry Frederick Baker 1866-1956" .Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 :49– 68.doi :10.1098/rsbm.1956.0004 JSTOR 769475 .^ O'Connor, John J.;Robertson, Edmund F. ,"Henry F. Baker" ,MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive University of St Andrews ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006).Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF) .Royal Society of Edinburgh .ISBN 090219884X the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved18 September 2015 . ^ "Baker, Henry Frederick (BKR883HF)" .A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes by Gordon Welchman (1982, Allen Lane, London) pp 35, 85, 126ISBN 0 7139 1294 4 ^a b c d e f Hollcroft, T. R. (1935)."Review ofPrinciples of geometry , volumes 1–6, by H. F. Baker" (PDF) .Bull. Amer. Math. Soc .41 (11):768– 772.doi :10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06177-4 ^ Woods, F. S. (1925)."Review ofPrinciples of geometry , Vol. 2:Plane geometry. Conics, circles, non-Euclidean geometry by H. F. Baker" (PDF) .Bull. Amer. Math. Soc .31 (7):370– 371.doi :10.1090/S0002-9904-1925-04065-3 ^ Brown, B. H. (1926)."Review ofPrinciples of geometry , Vol. 3:Solid geometry. Quadrics, cubic curves in space, cubic surfaces by H. F. Baker" (PDF) .Bull. Amer. Math. Soc .32 (2):173– 174.doi :10.1090/S0002-9904-1926-04189-6
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