Charles Henry Rowe

Charles Henry Rowe (9 February 1893, Cork – 4 December 1943) was an Irish mathematician, specializing in geometry.[1] He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (1926-1943).[2]

Career

Rowe received his bachelor's degree from University College Cork in 1914 and his M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 1917. He was a close friend of the mathematical physicist J. L. Synge.[3] By winning a competitive examination in 1920, Rowe became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and retained the fellowship until his death. He spent the academic year 1920–1921 in Paris, where he studied under Hadamard, Lebesgue, and Goursat.[citation needed]

From 1923 to 1926 he was the Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics at TCD[1] and, after a probationary period as an acting professor,[4] was appointed in 1926 to the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics, retaining the position until his death.[1]

In 1932 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM, with talk Subspaces associated with certain systems of curves in a Riemannian space, in 1932 in Zurich. The Rowe Prize of Trinity College Dublin was established in 1959 by a bequest from his widow, Olive Marjorie Rowe.[5]

Selected publications

  • "A kinematical treatment of some theorems on normal rectilinear congruences." Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1929) 919–930. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1929-1501522-4
  • "On certain doubly infinite systems of curves on a surface." Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1930) 695–704. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1930-05040-5
  • "Some theorems on the generators of a hyperboloid." Mathematische Annalen 103, no. 1 (1930): 516–531. doi:10.1007/BF01455707
  • "A Proof of the Asymptotic Series for log Γ(z) and log Γ(z+ a)." Annals of Mathematics (1931): 10–16. doi:10.2307/1968409
  • "A characteristic property of systems of paths." In Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol. 40, pp. 99–106. Royal Irish Academy, 1931. JSTOR 20490688
  • "Characteristic properties of certain systems of paths in a Riemannian space." In Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol. 41, pp. 102–110. Royal Irish Academy, 1932. JSTOR 20490700
  • "On certain systems of curves in Riemannian space." Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées 12 (1933): 283–308.
  • "On natural families of curves." Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (1933) 793–801. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1933-05743-9
  • with Bertrand Gambier: "Lieu des points dont les rapports des distances à trois droites fixes restent constants: biquadratiques, cubiques gauches et dégénérescences." In Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, vol. 53, pp. 329–386. Elsevier, 1936.
  • "Couples de tétraèdres de Moebius inscrits dans une quadrique (ou une biquadrique) et circonscrits à une autre quadrique (ou une développable de classe quatre)." In Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, vol. 58, pp. 261–283. Elsevier, 1941.

References

  1. ^ a b c Semple, J. G. (1944). "Charles Henry Rowe". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 19 (76, Part 4): 241–244. doi:10.1112/jlms/19.76_Part_4.241.
  2. ^ Erasmus Smith's professors of Mathematics Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992
  3. ^ McCartney, Mark; Whitaker, Andrew, eds. (2003). Physicists of Ireland: passion and precision. CRC Press. p. 212. ISBN 9781420033175.
  4. ^ Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1922). The Dublin University Calendar for the Year 1922–1923. p. 448.
  5. ^ "Scholarship Prizes and Financial Assistance, School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin".