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MURPHY, ROBERT (1806-1843)

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MURPHY, See also:ROBERT (1806-1843) , See also:British mathematician, the son of a poor shoemaker, was See also:born at See also:Mallow, in See also:Ireland, in 18o6. At the See also:age of thirteen, while working as an apprentice in his See also:father's See also:shop, he became known to certain gentlemen in the neighbourhood as a self-taught mathematician. Through their exertions, after attending a classical school in his native See also:town, he was admitted to See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1825. Third wrangler in 1829, he was elected in the same See also:year a See also:fellow of his college. A course of dissipation led him into See also:debt; his fellowship was sequestered for the benefit of his creditors, and he was obliged to leave Cambridge in See also:December 1832. After living for some See also:time with his relations in Ireland, he repaired to See also:London in 1836, a penniless See also:literary adventurer. In 1838 he became examiner in See also:mathematics and physics at London University. He had already contributed several mathematical papers to the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions (1831–1836), Philosophical See also:Magazine (1833–1842), and the Philosophical Transactions (1837), and had published Elementary Principles of the Theories of See also:Electricity (1833). He now wrote for the " Library of Useful Knowledge " a See also:Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations (1839). He died on the 12th of See also:March 1843.

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