H. F. Baker
Henry Frederick Baker (
July 3,
1866 -
March 17,
1956) was a
British mathematician, working mainly in
algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to
partial differential equations (related to what would become known as
solitons), and
Lie groups.He was born in
Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire,
England. He entered
St John's College, Cambridge in October 1884 and graduated
Senior Wrangler in 1887, bracketed with 3 others. He was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.In
1911, he gave the presidential address to the
London Mathematical Society.
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