Died 1928 | ||
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Robert William Genese (1848, Dublin – 1928) was an Irish mathematician.
From St John's College of the University of Cambridge, Genese received in 1871 his bachelor's degree (with rank eighth Wrangler in the Tripos) and in 1874 his master's degree. He was from 1879 to 1919 professor of mathematics at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth.
Genese introduced into the United Kingdom the ideas of Hermann Grassmann (advancing the use of vector analysis). In his 1941 book The calculus of extensions, Henry Forder published numerous examples in vector analysis taken from Genese's posthumous notes. (Genese's notes were left to the Mathematical Association and then given in 1929 to Forder by E. H. Neville.)
Genese was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1904 in Heidelberg with talk On some useful theorems in the continued multiplication of a regressive product in real four-point space and in 1908 in Rome with talk The method of reciprocal polars applied to forces in space.