Alexander G. BurgessFRSEFEIS (24 December 1872 – 29 March 1932) was a Scottish mathematician. He served as president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. He is noted for his work on Tripolar Co-ordinates.
He became a teacher at Merchiston Castle School. From there he moved to Rothesay Academy and Edinburgh Ladies' College before returning to Rothesay as Rector of Rothesay Academy and the Thomson Institute in 1917.[2][3]
He died on 29 March 1932.
Contributions and service
In 1900 he became a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, presenting at least 13 papers to the body over his membership. He served as its Secretary 1908–11, Vice-president 1911–12 and President 1912–13. During this period he organised the first Mathematical Colloquium in the city.
^"EMS obituary". MacTutor Archive. November 2007. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
^Burgess, A. G. (1924). I. Tripolar coordinates (straight line and circle); II. Concurrency of lines joining vertices of a triangle to opposite vertices of triangles on its sides; [III]. Determinants connected with the periodic solutions of Mathieu's equation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/29477.