Person: Gibb, David
David Gibb graduated from Edinburgh University and went on to become a lecturer and reader there.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- David Gibb had younger siblings: Edith (born about 1881), William (born about 1886) and Annabella (born about 1890).
- David Gibb's home was Bellavue, Innerleven, Methil, Fife.
- In his first year of study at university, Gibb took courses in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Ordinary level passing Mathematics with the excellent mark of 89% but finding Natural Philosophy somewhat harder with a pass at 57%.
- Following his graduation, Gibb was a mathematics teacher in a school until Chrystal appointed him a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1909.
- Gibb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 24 January 1910 having been proposed by George Chrystal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Cargill Gilston Knott, and Ellice M Horsburgh.
- Gibb joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in December 1910.
Born 31 October 1883, Methil, Fife, Scotland. Died 28 March 1946, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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