Harry Bateman | |
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 1931 drawing of Harry Bateman | |
| Born | 29 May 1882 Manchester, England |
| Died | 21 January 1946 (aged 63) Milford, Utah, USA |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA) Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
| Known for | Bateman Manuscript Project Bateman–Burgers equation Bateman equation Bateman function Bateman polynomials Bateman transform |
| Awards | Senior Wrangler (1903) Smith's Prize (1905) Gibbs Lecture (1943) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geometrical optics Partial differential equations Fluid dynamics Electromagnetism |
| Institutions | Bryn Mawr College Johns Hopkins University California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The Quartic Curve and Its Inscribed Configurations (1913) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frank Morley |
| Doctoral students | Clifford Truesdell Howard P. Robertson Albert George Wilson |
Harry Bateman FRS[1] (29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946) was an English mathematician with a specialty in differential equations of mathematical physics.[2][3] With Ebenezer Cunningham, he expanded the views of spacetime symmetry of Lorentz and Poincare to a more expansive conformal group of spacetime leaving Maxwell's equations invariant. Moving to the US, he obtained a Ph.D. in geometry with Frank Morley and became a professor of mathematics at California Institute of Technology. There he taught fluid dynamics to students going into aerodynamics with Theodore von Karman. Bateman made a broad survey of applied differential equations in his Gibbs Lecture in 1943 titled, "The control of an elastic fluid".