Professor Henry Baker | |
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Born | Henry Frederick Baker 3 July 1866 Cambridge, England |
Died | 17 March 1956 Cambridge, England | (aged 89)
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Cayley[1] |
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Henry Frederick Baker FRS[2] FRSE (3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups.[3]