Person: Walker, John James
John James Walker was an English mathematician whose work was mainly in analysis of plane curves and in quaternions.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- Walker completed his school education at Plymouth New Grammar School before entering Trinity College Dublin as an undergraduate.
- Walker returned to England and, from 1865, he worked in London as a lecturer in applied mathematics and physics at University College.
- Walker was honoured with election as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1883.
- The range of Walker's mathematical research was quite impressive.
- Walker was a strong advocate of Hamilton's quaternions and strongly believed that they had not been given as wide a use as they merited.
- The three most important papers that Walker wrote were on the analysis of plane curves and curved lines.
- It is an interesting thought what someone writing in 1901 about 'courtesy of manner which seemed to belong to a bygone generation' might think of Walker now, almost 100 years later.
Born 2 October 1825, Kennington, Surrey, England. Died 15 February 1900, Hampstead, England.
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- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
