See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• MURPHY, ARTHUR (1727–1805)
• MURPHY, JOHN FRANCIS (1853– )
• ROBERT MURPHY (1806-1843)

MURPHY (1806-1843)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British mathematician, the son of a poor shoemaker, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MALLOW

Mallow, in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, in 18o6 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of thirteen, while working as an apprentice in his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• SHOP

shop, he became known to certain gentlemen in the neighbourhood as a self-taught mathematician . Through their exertions, after attending a classical school in his native See also:

• TOWN

town, he was admitted to See also:

• CAIUS
• CAIUS [Anglice KEES, KEYS, etc.], JOHN (1510-1573)

Caius See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, in 1825 . Third wrangler in 1829, he was elected in the same See also:

• YEAR

year a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of his college . A course of dissipation led him into See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt; his fellowship was sequestered for the benefit of his creditors, and he was obliged to leave Cambridge in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1832 . After living for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time with his relations in Ireland, he repaired to See also:

• LONDON

London in 1836, a penniless See also:

• LITERARY

literary adventurer . In 1838 he became examiner in See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics and physics at London University . He had already contributed several mathematical papers to the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions (1831–1836), Philosophical See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine (1833–1842), and the Philosophical Transactions (1837), and had published Elementary Principles of the Theories of See also:

• ELECTRICITY

Electricity (1833) . He now wrote for the " Library of Useful Knowledge " a See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations (1839) . He died on the 12th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1843 .