Sir Thomas Muir, 1844--1934

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2004.12.026MaRDI QIDQ2575010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Maritz

Publication date 5 December 2005

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2004.12.026

zbMATH Keywords

BibliographyBiographydeterminantsHadamard's inequalitylaw of extensible minorsMuir's mathematical writingsThomas Muir's life and death

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

Part I, on his life, is organized as follows: Introduction; Mathematical master; Moving to Cape Town; Educator (Background; Schools and colleges; Organisational; Muir College; Reforms; Trips; Language; Criticism; Farewell); The pensioner. Part II, on his mathematics, is organized as follows: His Mathematics; Hadamard's Inequality; Determinantal identities; Magnum Opus; Revised list of mathematical writings (321 titles). Thomas Muir's papers were neatly bounded into 14 volumes, arranged chronologically according to date of publication. The author indicates also the arrangement of these papers according to subjects: Aggregates of determinants or of products of determinants; Alternants; Arrays, oblong; Axisymmetric determinants; Compound determinants; Continuants; Continued fractions; Elimination and solution; General determinants; Hermitians and Hessians; Jacobians; Orthogonants; Permanents and recurrents; Persymmetric determinants; Pfaffians; Products of determinants; Skew determinants; Unclassified special determinants. There is also a list of 58 papers on education, historical nature or on other topics.

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