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Nationality
  
British

Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  
Mathematician Geometry

Died
  
March 17, 1956, Cambridge


Doctoral advisor
  
Arthur Cayley

Residence
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
H. Baker

Awards
  
De Morgan Medal

H. F. Baker

Born
  
Henry Frederick Baker 3 July 1866 Cambridge, England (
1866-07-03
)

Institutions
  
University of Cambridge

Alma mater
  
St John's College, Cambridge

Doctoral students
  
Jacob Bronowski Thomas M. Cherry H. S. M. Coxeter Yusuke Hagihara Edwin Arthur Maxwell Louis J. Mordell Daniel Pedoe Thomas Gerald Room John A. Todd

Education
  
University of Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge

Books
  
Abel's theorem and the al, An Introduction to the The, Abelian functions, Principles of Geometry, A locus with 25920 linear self

Similar People
  
Arthur Cayley, Harold Scott MacDona, James Joseph Sylvester, Louis J Mordell, Jacob Bronowski

Henry Frederick Baker FRS 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.

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Early life

He was born in Cambridge the son of Henty Baker, a butler, and Sarah Ann Britham.

Education

He was educated at The Perse School before winning a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge in October 1884. Baker graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1887, bracketed with 3 others.

Career

Baker was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.

In June, 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1911, he gave the presidential address to the London Mathematical Society.

In January 1914 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy.

Gordon Welchman recalled that in the 1930s before the war Dennis Babbage and himself were members of a group of geometers known as Professor Baker’s "Tea Party", who met once a week to discuss the areas of research in which we were all interested. .

He married twice. Firstly in 1893 to Lilly Isabella Hamfield Klopp, who died in 1903, then he remarried in 1913, to Muriel Irene Woodyard.

He died in Cambridge and is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, with his second wife Muriel (1885 - 1956).

Publications

  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1922), Principles of geometry. Volume 1. Foundations, Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01777-0, MR 2849917 Reprinted 2010 
  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1922), Principles of geometry. Volume 2. Plane geometry, Conics, circles, non-Euclidean geometry, Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01778-7, MR 2857757 Reprinted 2010 
  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1923), Principles of geometry. Volume 3. Solid geometry. Quadrics, cubic curves in space, cubic surfaces., Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01779-4, MR 2857520 Reprinted 2010 
  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1925), Principles of geometry. Volume 4. Higher geometry. Being illustrations of the utility of the consideration of higher space, especially of four and five dimensions, Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01780-0, MR 2849669 Reprinted 2010 
  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1933), Principles of geometry. Volume 5. Analytical principals of the theory of curves, Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01781-7, MR 2850139 Reprinted 2010 
  • Baker, Henry Frederick (1933), Principles of geometry. Volume 6. Introduction to the theory of algebraic surfaces and higher loci., Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-01782-4, MR 2850141 Reprinted 2010 
  • Abel's theorem and the allied theory, including the theory of the theta functions (Cambridge: The University Press, 1897)
  • An introduction to the theory of multiply periodic functions (Cambridge: The University Press, 1907)
  • 1943 An Introduction to Plane Geometry

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