Person

Carslaw, Horatio Scott (1870 - 1954)

Born
12 February 1870
Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
Died
11 November 1954
Burradoo, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Mathematician

Summary

Horatio Carslaw was a mathematician whose most enduring and important work in mathematics was in the theory of conduction of heat. In this field he published the ground-breaking Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals and the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat (1906). In all he published over 70 papers and ten books including, with J. C. Jaeger, Conduction of heat in solids (1947, 2nd edition 1959) and Operational methods in applied mathematics (1941, 2nd edition 1948). In 1903 Carslaw became Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney, from which position he retired in 1935. His interest in the quality of secondary school mathematical education caused him to participate in negotiations for the reform of the public examination system in New South Wales. This led to his membership of the first board of examiners established under A.C. Carmichael's University (Amendment) Act 1912 and he was chief examiner of mathematics for the next 30 years.

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Chronology

1891
Education - MA, University of Glasgow, Scotland
1894
Education - BA, University of Cambridge
1896 - 1897
Life event - Studied at the University of Göttingen, Germany
1896 - 1903
Career position - Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
1898
Education - MA, University of Cambridge
1899 - 1905
Career position - Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
1903 - 1935
Career position - Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Sydney
1903 - 1954
Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
1908
Education - ScD, University of Cambridge
1913
Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physcis), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1919 -
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mathematics), Australian National Research Council
1926
Award - Honorary Doctorate, University of Adelaide
1928
Award - Honorary Doctorate, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Horatio Scott Carslaw - Records, 1924 - 1944, MS 003; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
  • James Thomas Wilson - Records, 1883 - 1940, MS 035; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Carslaw, H. S., The Teaching of Mathematics in Australia (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1914). Details

Book Sections

  • Deakin, Michael A. B., 'Horatio Scott Carslaw, 1870-1954' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Jaeger, J. C., 'Carslaw, Horatio Scott (1870-1954), mathematician' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 578-579. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070583b.htm. Details

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See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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