Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics
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The Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics
is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
, England
. The endowment came from the engineer Charles Frederick Beyer
, a generous supporter of the University.
The first appointment in 1881 was of Arthur Schuster who held the position until 1888. After Schuster’s departure, the chair of Mathematics to which Horace Lamb had been appointed in 1885 became the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and remained so until Lamb’s retirement in 1920. At this point an existing chair, of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy to which Sydney Chapman had been appointed in 1919, was renamed the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. After Chapman’s resignation, the Beyer title was applied to the chair of Applied Mathematics. There was no incumbent between 1937-1945.
The chair has always been considered a prodigious professorship, witness for example by the fact that all the holders of the post who are now retired were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, an honour bestowed on a small minority of UK mathematics professors. Lamb, Champman, Milne and Goldstein all received the Smith's Prize
and indication of early career promise.
The other endowed chairs in mathematics at the University of Manchester
are the Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics
and the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics
.
Applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge...
is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
The School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with around 80 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 a year and another 200 postgraduate students...
, England
England
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. The endowment came from the engineer Charles Frederick Beyer
Charles Beyer
Charles Frederick Beyer was a German-British locomotive engineer, co-founder of the firm Beyer-Peacock.-Early life:...
, a generous supporter of the University.
The first appointment in 1881 was of Arthur Schuster who held the position until 1888. After Schuster’s departure, the chair of Mathematics to which Horace Lamb had been appointed in 1885 became the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and remained so until Lamb’s retirement in 1920. At this point an existing chair, of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy to which Sydney Chapman had been appointed in 1919, was renamed the Beyer Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. After Chapman’s resignation, the Beyer title was applied to the chair of Applied Mathematics. There was no incumbent between 1937-1945.
The chair has always been considered a prodigious professorship, witness for example by the fact that all the holders of the post who are now retired were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, an honour bestowed on a small minority of UK mathematics professors. Lamb, Champman, Milne and Goldstein all received the Smith's Prize
Smith's Prize
The Smith's Prize was the name of each of two prizes awarded annually to two research students in theoretical Physics, mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.- History :...
and indication of early career promise.
The other endowed chairs in mathematics at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
are the Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics
Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics
The Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. The chair was founded by an endowment of £3,600 from one John Richardson, in 1890. The endowment was originally used to support the Richardson...
and the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics
Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics
The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England.In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College for the teaching of evening classes and a further £3000 for the...
.
Beyer Professors
- 1881–1888 Arthur SchusterArthur SchusterSir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...
- 1888–1920 Horace LambHorace LambSir Horace Lamb FRS was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound...
- 1920–1924 Sydney Chapman, Beyer Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
- 1924–1928 Edward Arthur Milne
- 1929–1937 Douglas HartreeDouglas HartreeDouglas Rayner Hartree PhD, FRS was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyser.-Early life:Douglas Hartree was born in...
- 1945–1950 Sydney GoldsteinSydney GoldsteinSydney Goldstein FRS was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as:...
- 1950–1959 James LighthillJames LighthillSir Michael James Lighthill, FRS was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics.-Biography:...
- 1961–1990 Fritz UrsellFritz UrsellFritz Joseph Ursell FRS is a British mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially in the area of wave-structure interactions. He held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester from 1961–1990, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972...
- 1991–1996 Philip Hall
- 1996– David AbrahamsDavid Abrahams (mathematician)Ian David Abrahams is an English Mathematician, currently Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester...