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GEORGE SALMON (1819-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:SALMON (1819-1904)  , See also:British mathematician and divine, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 25th of See also:September 1819 and educated at Trinity See also:College in that See also:city . Having become See also:senior See also:moderator in See also:mathematics and a See also:fellow of Trinity, he took See also:holy orders, and was appointed regius See also:professor of divinity in Dublin University in 1866, a position which he retained until 1888, when he was chosen See also:provost of Trinity College . He was provost until his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:January 1904 . As a mathematician See also:Salmon was a fellow of the Royal Society, and was See also:president of the mathematical and See also:physical See also:section of the British Association in 1878 . He was a D.C.L. of See also:Oxford and an LL.D. of See also:Cambridge . His published mathematical See also:works include: See also:Analytic See also:Geometry o Three Dimensions (1862), See also:Treatise on Conic Sections (4th ed., 1863 and Treatise on the Higher See also:Plane Curves (2nd ed., 1873) ; these books are of the highest value, and have been translated into several See also:languages . As a theologian he wrote See also:Historical Introduction to the Study of the New Testament (1885), The See also:Infallibility of the See also:Church (1888), Non-Miraculous See also:Christianity (1881) and The Reign of See also:Law (1873) .

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