Frank Smithies

Frank Smithies FRSE (10 March 1912, Edinburgh, Scotland – 16 November 2002, Cambridge, England) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.

Publications

• Smithies, F. (1958), Integral equations, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 49, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-06502-3, MR 0104991^[1]
• Smithies, F. (1997), Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59278-X^[2]

References

1. Elliott, Joanne (1960). "Review: Integral equations by F. Smithies" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (4): 256–257. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10448-x.
2. Johnson, Dale M. (November 1998). "Review: Cauchy and the creation of complex function theory by F. Smithies". The Mathematical Gazette. 82 (495): 537–540. doi:10.2307/3619934. JSTOR 3619934.

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Smithies", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• "Frank Smithies", The Times, Obituary

External links

• Works by F. Smithies at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frank Smithies at Internet Archive
• Frank Smithies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project