Edward Routh
Overview
England
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mathematician
Mathematician
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, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos
Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
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examination of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics
Mechanics
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and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory
Control theory
Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...
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Routh was born of an English family in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, then in the British colony of Upper Canada
Upper Canada
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