Person: Allardice, Robert Edgar
Robert Alladice studied at Edinburgh University and was then appointed assistant to Professor Chrystal there. He became Professor at Stanford University in California. He worked in geometry.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- In 1883 Allardice was appointed as Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, the professor being George Chrystal.
- The University, now known as Stanford University, was opened by the railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop, in the year before Allardice took up his professorship there.
- Allardice was a founder member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, joining in February 1883.
- Robert Edgar Allardice was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 16 January 1888, his proposers being George Chrystal, Peter Guthrie Tait, Robert M Ferguson, John Sturgeon Mackay.
Born 2 March 1862, Edinburgh, Scotland. Died 6 May 1928, Palo Alto, California, USA.
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