Frank Smithies

Frank Smithies FRSE (1912–2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.

Frank Smithies
Born(1912-03-10)March 10, 1912
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died16 November 2002(2002-11-16) (aged 90)
Cambridge, England
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsFRSE
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisThe Theory of Linear Integral Equations (1937)
Doctoral advisorG. H. Hardy
Doctoral students

Publications
  • Smithies, F. (1958), Integral equations, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 49, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-06502-3, MR 0104991[1]
  • Smithies, F. (1997), Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59278-X[2]
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References
  1. Elliott, Joanne (1960). "Review: Integral equations by F. Smithies" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (4): 256–257. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10448-x.
  2. Johnson, Dale M. (November 1998). "Review: Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory by F. Smithies". The Mathematical Gazette. 82 (495): 537–540. doi:10.2307/3619934. JSTOR 3619934.
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