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ROUTH, EDWARD JOHN (1831—1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 780 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROUTH, See also:EDWARD See also:JOHN (1831—1907) , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Quebec on the loth of See also:January 1831. At the See also:age of eleven he came to See also:England, and after studying under A. de See also:Morgan at University See also:College, See also:London, entered Peterhouse, See also:Cambridge, in 1851. In the mathematical tripos three years later he was See also:senior wrangler, beating J. Clerk See also:Maxwell, who, however, tied with him for the See also:Smith's See also:prize. Elected a See also:fellow of his college, he devoted himself to teaching, and quickly proved himself one of the most successful mathematical " coaches " ever known at Cambridge. In See also:thirty years, of some 700 pupils who passed through his hands Soo became wranglers; and for twenty-two successive years, from 1861 to 1882, the senior wrangler was trained by him. He made considerable contributions to scientific literature, and among his publications were: An See also:Analytical View of See also:Newton's Principia, with See also:Lord See also:Brougham (1855); an See also:Essay on the Stability of a given See also:State of See also:Motion, which won the See also:Adams', prize in 1877; and See also:treatises on the See also:Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, on Analytical See also:Statics, and on the Dynamics of a Particle. He died at Cambridge on the 7th of See also:June 1907.

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