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Biographies

1. Airy biography
   
   • Woodhouse, who had left the Lucasian chair in 1822 to become Plumian Professor of Astronomy, was one of Airy's examiners for the Smith's prize, the other being Thomas Turton who had succeeded Woodhouse to the Lucasian chair.
     
   • Only three years after graduating from Cambridge, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
     
   • It is rather surprising that the Lucasian Professor only received £99 per year while Airy was already receiving £150 as an assistant tutor.
     
   • In addition to the Lucasian Chair, Airy was appointed a member of the Board of Longitude which gave him another £100 per year provided he attended four meetings.
     
   • Airy was an examiner for the Smith's Prize and gave lectures while holding the Lucasian Chair.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1826 .
     

2. Waring biography
   
   • When Waring was nominated for the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1759, the work was distributed as Miscellanea Analytica to prove he was qualified for the post despite his youth.
     
   • William Powell of St John's College Cambridge had his own ideas about who should fill the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics and attempted to prevent Waring being appointed.
     
   • John Wilson now wrote A letter to support Waring and this was sufficient to see him confirmed as Lucasian professor on 28 January 1760 at the age of 23.
     
   • One would not expect the Lucasian professor of mathematics to take a medical degree but that is exactly what Waring did, graduating with his M.D.
     
   • One might ask how Waring could practise medicine and hold the Lucasian Chair at the same time.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1760 .
     

3. Lighthill biography
   
   • In 1969 Paul Dirac retired as Lucasian professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and Lighthill was appointed to succeed him.
     
   • Lighthill held the Lucasian chair for 10 years and was proud to hold the chair once held by Newton.
     
   • He became Provost of University College London in 1979, Stephen Hawking succeeding him as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and Lighthill held this administrative post for 10 years until he retired in 1989.
     
   • During his time as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Lighthill [Sir James Lighthill (The Independent, 22 July 1998).',2)">2]:- .
     
   • as Lucasian Professor, he was fully seized both of the laws of mechanics and of his duty to society not to waste energy, the latter compelling him to desist from applying the brake on any downhill section of road.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1969 .
     

4. Newton biography
   
   • The second period from 1669 to 1687 was the highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge.
     
   • It would be easy to think that Newton's talent began to emerge on the arrival of Barrow to the Lucasian chair at Cambridge in 1663 when he became a Fellow at Trinity College.
     
   • Barrow resigned the Lucasian chair in 1669 to devote himself to divinity, recommending that Newton (still only 27 years old) be appointed in his place.
     
   • Newton's first work as Lucasian Professor was on optics and this was the topic of his first lecture course begun in January 1670.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1669 .
     

5. Dirac biography
   
   • Dirac was appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1932, a post he held for 37 years.
     
   • In 1969 Dirac retired from the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge and went with his family to Florida in the United States.
     
   • The memorial address was presented by Stephen Hawking who was Dirac's successor in the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge which was also Newton's chair.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1932 .
     

6. Stokes biography
   
   • In 1849 Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
     
   • The Lucasian chair paid very poorly so Stokes needed to earn additional money and he did this by accepting an additional position to the Lucasian chair, namely that of Professor of Physics at the Government School of Mines in London.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1849 .
     

7. Saunderson biography
   
   • The Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge at that time was William Whiston who had been appointed to succeed Newton in 1703.
     
   • He came to believe that the doctrine of the Trinity was incorrect and this led to him being removed from the Lucasian chair on 30 October 1710.
     
   • On the following day Saunderson was appointed to succeed Whiston becoming the fourth Lucasian professor of mathematics.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1711 .
     

8. Barrow biography
   
   • In the summer of 1663 the position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was created at Cambridge thanks to an endowment left by Henry Lucas.
     
   • In 1669 Barrow resigned from the Lucasian Chair and did no further mathematical work.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1664 .
     

9. Larmor biography
   
   • He went on to become Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1903, the chair becoming vacant on the death of Stokes in February of that year.
     
   • Larmor retired from the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1932.
     
   • Lucasian Professor 1903 .
     

10. Whiston biography
    
    • In May 1702 Whiston succeeded Newton as Lucasian professor and, in the following year, he published an edition of Euclid for the use of students at Cambridge.
      
    • Lucasian Professor 1702 .
      

11. Woodhouse biography
    
    • He was appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics in 1820 but this chair provided such a small income that he was happy to resign in 1822 so that he might accept the better paid position as Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy.
      
    • Lucasian Professor 1820 .
      

12. Hawking biography
    
    • In 1979 Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
      
    • Lucasian Professor 1980 .
      

13. Babbage biography
    
    • In 1827 Babbage became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a position he held for 12 years although he never taught.
      
    • Lucasian Professor 1828 .
      

14. Whiteside biography
    
    • This first volume appeared in 1964 with the second volume, containing English translations of Newton's Lucasian lectures on algebra and analytical geometry, his enumeration of cubics, and his tract on finite differences, appearing in 1967.
      

15. Rayleigh biography
    
    • There was another important influence on Rayleigh during his undergraduate years at Cambridge, namely that of Stokes who was the Lucasian professor of mathematics at the time.
      

16. Wilson John biography
    
    • Before he took his final examinations Wilson had already gained a strong reputation and he had also attracted considerable attention by defending Waring, who was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, from strong attacks which had been made on him as a result of his text Miscellanea analytica.
      

History Topics

1. Longitude2
   
   • The Commissioners included members of the Admiralty, the Astronomer Royal, the Savilian, Lucasian, and Plumian professors of mathematics in Oxford and Cambridge and ten members of Parliament.
     

Famous Curves

Societies etc

1. Lucasian Chairs
   
   • Lucasian Chairs of Mathematics .
     
   • The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics was founded in 1663 at Cambridge University as a result of a gift from .
     
   • The history of the Lucasian chair .
     
   • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/Lucasian.html .
     

References

1. References for Saunderson
   
   • J J Tattersall, Nicholas Saunderson : the blind Lucasian Professor, Historia Math.
     

Additional material

1. John Maynard Keynes: 'Newton, the Man
   
   • 'Of the most fearful, cautious and suspicious temper that I ever knew', said Whiston, his successor in the Lucasian Chair.
     
   • It was the reason why he refused Holy Orders, and therefore had to obtain a special dispensation to hold his Fellowship and Lucasian Chair and could not be Master of Trinity.
     
   • It is a blot on Newton's record that he did not murmur a word when Whiston, his successor in the Lucasian Chair, was thrown out of his professorship and out of the University for publicly avowing opinions which Newton himself had secretly held for upwards of fifty years past.
     

2. The Tercentenary of the birth of James Gregory
   
   • It was here that Gregory first learnt, through a letter of Collins, about the geometrical methods of Barrow, the Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, and the analytics of his still more wonderful pupil, Isaac Newton, to whom Barrow relinquished his Chair.
     

3. Gregory tercentenary
   
   • It was at St Andrews, continued the Professor, that Gregory first learned, through a letter of Collins, about the geometrical methods of Barrow, the Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, and the analytics of his still more wonderful pupil, Isaac Newton, to whom Barrow relinquished his Chair.
     

Quotations

Chronology

1. Chronology for 1650 to 1675
   
   • Barrow becomes the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England.
     
   • Barrow resigns the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University to allow his pupil Newton to be appointed.
     

2. Mathematical Chronology
   
   • Barrow becomes the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England.
     
   • Barrow resigns the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University to allow his pupil Newton to be appointed.