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English mathematician (1856?1929)
M. J. M. Hill (1906)
Micaiah John Muller Hill
FRS
(1856?1929) was an English mathematician, known for
Hill's spherical vortex
[1]
[2]
and
Hill's tetrahedra
.
He was born on 22 February 1856 in
Berhampore
,
Bengal
, India, the son of Revd. Samuel John Hill (1825?1881) and Leonora Josephina Muller (1833?1917).
Hill received a bachelor's degree in 1873 and an M.A. in 1876 from
University College, London
. In 1880?1884 he was a professor of mathematics at
Mason College
(which later became
Birmingham University
). In 1891 he earned his Sc.D. from
Cambridge University
. From 1884 to 1907 he was Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College, London and from 1907 to 1923 Astor Professor of Mathematics, University of London.
[3]
In 1894 Hill was elected FRS. In 1926 and 1927 he served as president of the
Mathematical Association
.
Hill was one of the people to whom C. L. T. Griffith sent, in 1912, some of Ramanujan's work.
[4]
He married Minnie Grace Tarbotton, daughter of
Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
at St Saviour's Church, Paddington on 21 December 1892.
[5]
His two sons were
Roderic Hill
and
Geoffrey T. R. Hill
.
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