Thomas GallowayFRS (26 February 1796 – 1 November 1851) was a 19th-centuryScottishmathematician.
He was born inSymington, South Lanarkshire,Scotland. In 1812 he entered theUniversity of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. In 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at theRoyal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1833 he became anactuary of the Amicable Life Assurance Office, the oldest institution of that kind in London, where he remained until his death in 1851. Galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most part, anonymous writer. His most notable paper, "On the proper motion of the solar system", was published in thePhilosophical Transactions of 1847. He contributed largely to the seventh edition ofEncyclopædia Britannica, and also wrote several scientific papers for theEdinburgh Review and various scientific journals. HisEncyclopaedia article, "Probability", was published separately.[1] He is buried inKensal Green Cemetery, London.
Galloway married a daughter of the mathematicianWilliam Wallace,[2] in 1831.[3]
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