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See also:MACCULLAGH, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1809-1847) , Irish mathematician and physicist, was See also:born in 1809, near See also:Strabane, See also:Ireland. After a brilliant career at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, he was elected See also:fellow in 1832. From 1832 to 1843 he held the See also:chair of See also:mathematics; and during his See also:tenure of this See also:post he improved in a most marked manner the position of his university as a mathematical centre. In 1843 he was transferred to the chair of natural See also:philosophy. Overwork, mainly on subjects beyond the natural range of his See also:powers, induced See also:mental disease; and he died by his own See also:hand in See also:October 1847.
His See also:Works were published in 1880. Their distinguishing feature is the See also:geometry—which has rarely been applied either to pure space problems or to known See also:physical questions such as the rotation of a rigid solid or the properties of See also:Fresnel's See also:wave-See also:surface with such singular elegance; in this respect his See also:work takes See also:rank with that of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Poinsot. One specially remarkable geometrical See also:discovery,of MacCullagh's is that of the "modular See also:generation of surfaces of the second degree "; and a noteworthy contribution to physical See also:optics is his " theorem of the polar See also:plane." But his methods, which, in less known subjects, were almost entirely tentative, were altogether inadequate to the See also:solution of the more profound physical problems to,which his See also:attention was mainly devoted, such as the theory of See also:double See also:refraction, &c. See G. G. See also:Stokes's " See also:Report on Double Refraction " (B. A. Report, 1862).
End of Article: MACCULLAGH, JAMES (1809-1847)
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