Augustus Edward Hough Love | |
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| Born | 17 April 1863 |
| Died | 5 June 1940 (aged 77)[1] Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
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| Awards | Royal Medal (1909) Adams prize (1911) De Morgan Medal (1926) Sylvester Medal (1937) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Geodynamics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral students | G. H. Hardy |
Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS[1] (17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare – 5 June 1940, Oxford), often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves.[2][3][4] Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, used in problems related to Earth tides, the tidal deformation of the solid Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun.
- ^ a b Milne, E. A. (1941). "Augustus Edward Hough Love. 1863-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (9): 467–482. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0015. S2CID 176875084.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Augustus Edward Hough Love", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Augustus Edward Hough Love at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Love, Augustus Edward Hough". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34603. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)