English mathematician and author
Professor Alfred Lodge MA (1854 – 1 December 1937), was an English mathematician , author, and the first president of The Mathematical Association .
Alfred Lodge was born in 1854 at Penkhull , Staffordshire , one of nine children to Oliver Lodge (1826–1884) and Grace, née Heath (1826–1879). His siblings included physicist Sir Oliver Lodge , and historians Sir Richard Lodge and Eleanor Constance Lodge . He attended Horncastle Grammar School , afterwards studying at Magdalen College, Oxford . In 1876 he became a fellow of St John's College, Oxford , and in 1884 joined the Royal Indian Engineering College at Egham , there becoming a professor of pure mathematics , succeeding Joseph Wolstenholme in 1889. From 1904 until after the First World War he was a master at Charterhouse School .[ 1] [ 2] In 1897 Lodge became the first president of The Mathematical Association after its name change from The Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching .[ 3]
Lodge was at times associated with his brother Oliver Lodge's preoccupation with psychic phenomena , although stating that his interest only lay where this seemed to apply to mathematics.[ 2]
Alfred Lodge died at Oxford on 1 December 1937. He was father of two sons, Charles and Christopher.[ 1] [ 2]
Selected publications
1895 – Mensuration for senior students . ISBN 1130347621
1899 – Matter, Ether and Motion: The Factors and Relations of Physical Science , edited English edition by Professor Alfred Lodge.[ 4]
1904 – Elementary mechanics including hydrostatics and pneumatics , with Oliver Lodge and Charles S. Lodge. ISBN 1176576577
1905 – Differential Calculus for Beginners . ISBN 1147272581
1905 – Integral calculus for beginners . ISBN 1231963778
1906 – "Semi-convergent Series for JnX" in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , 76th. Annual Meeting, York
1910 – "Reports on the State of Science" committee report on The Further tabulation of Bessel Functions , for the British Association for the Advancement of Science , 80th Annual Meeting, Sheffield[ 5]
1923 – Differential Calculus for Beginners – Primary Source Edition . ISBN 1293005665
1927 – "The Graphic Solution of Quadratic Equations", The Mathematical Gazette [ 6]
1933 – paper on the "Larmor-Lorentz transformations ", published in the Philosophical Magazine ; co-written Oliver Lodge[ 7]
References
^ a b "Prof. Alfred Lodge" , Obituary, Nature . Nature Publishing Group . Retrieved 13 April 2014
^ a b c "Professor Lodge Arrives in Sidney" , Sydney Morning Herald , 17 Oct 1930, p. 10. Retrieved 13 April 2014
^ "Presidents of the Association" , The Mathematical Association. Retrieved 13 April 2014
^ Dolbear, Amos Emerson ; Matter, Ether and Motion: The Factors and Relations of Physical Science , reprint CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013), ISBN 1484047605 . Report in The Guardian , 4 October 1899, p. 16. Retrieved 13 April 2014
^ The Further tabulation of Bessel Functions , in the State of Science report p. 37, John Murray , London, 1911, for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 80th Annual Meeting, Sheffield, 1910. Retrieved 13 April 2014
^ Lodge, Alfred (1927). "The Graphic Solution of Quadratic Equations" . The Mathematical Gazette . 13 (187): 313– 318. doi :10.2307/3604585 . JSTOR 3604585 .
^ Rowlands, Peter Lodge; Oliver Lodge and the Liverpool Physical Society , Liverpool University Press (1990), p. 282. ISBN 0853230277
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