Donald McIntosh (mathematician)

Donald Cameron McIntosh FRSE (13 January 1868 – 1 July 1957) was a Scottish educator and mathematician.

Donald Cameron McIntosh

FRSE
Born(1868-01-13)13 January 1868
Tomintoul, Scotland
Died1 July 1957(1957-07-01) (aged 89)
Boat of Garten, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsEdinburgh Ladies' College

Biography

McIntosh was born at Tomintoul, Banffshire, Scotland on 13 January 1868. He was educated at Tomintoul Parish School and Aberdeen Grammar School. He studied at the University of Aberdeen graduating with a MA in 1890, a BSc in marine zoology 1906 and a DSc in 1912 with a thesis entitled Studies on Echinodermata and on Variation.[1][2]

From 1890-1899 he was a teacher at George Watson's College, in Edinburgh, and Head of Mathematics at Edinburgh Ladies' College from 1899-1918. From 1918-1933 he was Director of Education in Moray and Nairn.[1][2]

He was a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.[1]

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1903. His proposers were John Sturgeon Mackay, Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie, Sir John Murray and Alexander Morgan.[1]

gollark: I don't think you can reasonably expect people to do useful possibly boring/hard work, in exactly the jobs you want, just to be nice/altruistic.
gollark: You wouldn't want people to be rewarded in some way for work?
gollark: "Fordist"?
gollark: And what if everyone wants to do a job which isn't that useful?
gollark: Again, how are you going to quantify that in every job ever without there being some financial incentive for it to make a little sense?

References
  1. Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (part 2). Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2006. p. 586. ISBN 0 902198 84 X.
  2. "Donald McIntosh (1868 - 1957)". mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2019.



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