See also:SIR See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:COCKLE (1819-1395)
, See also:English lawyer and mathematician, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:January 1819
.
He was the second son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Cockle, a surgeon, of See also:Great Oakley, See also:Essex
.
Educated at See also:Charterhouse and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, he entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1838, practising as a See also:special pleader in 1845 and being called in 1846
.
Joining the midland See also:circuit, he acquired a See also:good practice, and on the recommendation of See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Erie he was appointed chief justice of See also:Queensland in 1863
.
He received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood in 1869, retired from the See also:bench, and returned to See also:England in 1879
.
Cockle is more remembered for his mathematical and scientific investigations than as a lawyer
.
Like many See also:young mathematicians he attacked the problem of resolving the higher algebraic equations, notwithstanding See also:Abel's See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that a See also:solution by radicles was impossible
.
In this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field Cockle achieved some notable results, amongst which is his See also:reproduction of Sir William R
.
See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton's modification of Abel's theorem
.
Algebraic forms were a favourite See also:object of his studies, and he discovered and See also:developed the theory of criticoids, or See also:differential invariants; he also made contributions to the theory of differential equations
.
He displayed a keen See also:interest in scientific See also:societies
.
From 1863 to 1879 he was See also:president of the Queensland Philosophical Society (now incorporated in the Royal Society of Queensland); on his return to England he became associated with the See also:London Mathematical Society, of which he was president from 1886 to 1888, and the Royal Astronomical Society, serving as a member of the See also:council from 1888 to 1892
.
He died in London on the 27th of January 1895
.
A See also:volume containing his scientific and mathematical researches made during the years 1864–1877 was presented to the See also:British Museum in 1897 by his widow
.
See the obituary See also:notice by the Rev
.
R
.
Harley in Proc
.
See also:Roy
.
See also:Soc. vol
.
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