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Name
  
George Jerrard

Role
  
Mathematician


Died
  
November 23, 1863


Education
  
Trinity College, Dublin

George Birch Jerrard (1804 – 23 November 1863) was a British mathematician.

He studied at Trinity College, Dublin from 1821 to 1827. His main work was on the theory of equations, where he was reluctant to accept the validity of the work of Niels Henrik Abel on the insolubility of the quintic equation by radicals. He found a way of using Tschirnhaus transformations to eliminate three of the terms in an equation, which generalised work of Erland Bring (1736–1798), and is now called Bring–Jerrard normal form.

Works

  • An essay on the resolution of equations, part 1, London 1858, (online).
  • References

    George Jerrard Wikipedia


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