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- Title
Martin Gardiner: the first Irish-Australian mathematician.
- Authors
COHEN, GRAEME L.
- Abstract
Martin Gardiner was one of the first students enrolled in Queen's College, Galway, in 1850. He performed exceptionally well but ended his studies in civil engi- neering after just two years. While there, he developed his own set of correspondents, such as Richard Townsend in Trinity College, Dublin, through which he maintained a comprehensive knowledge of current developments in geometry. By 1857, he was in Melbourne, Australia, and was soon promoting himself as more capable than any local mathematician. He took surveying positions around the country, never for more than five years at a time, and everywhere he lived advertised himself as a private tutor, or as conducting a school for mathematicians and engineers. None was successful. Gardiner had over twenty publications in the proceedings of the Royal Societies of Victoria and New South Wales, as well as a few in leading English journals.
- Subjects
GALWAY (Ireland); VICTORIA; NEW South Wales; MATHEMATICIANS; ENGINEERING schools; GEOMETRY; TRINITY College (Dublin, Ireland)
- Publication
Bulletin of the Irish Mathematical Society, 2020, Issue 85, p3
- ISSN
0791-5578
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33232/bims.0085.3.16