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ISAAC TODHUNTER (1820-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1044 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISAAC See also:TODHUNTER (1820-1884)  , See also:English mathematician, son of See also:George See also:Todhunter, a See also:Nonconformist See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Rye on the 23rd of See also:November 1820 . He was educated at See also:Hastings, at which See also:town his See also:mother had opened a school after the See also:death of his See also:father in 1826 . He became an assistant See also:master at a school at See also:Peckham, attending at the same See also:time evening classes at the University See also:College, See also:London . In 1842 he obtained a mathematical scholarship and graduated as B.A. at London University, and was awarded the See also:gold See also:medal on the M.A. examination . About this time he became mathematical master at a school at See also:Wimbledon . In 1844 he entered St See also:John's College, See also:Cambridge, where he was See also:senior wrangler in 1848, and gained the first See also:Smith's See also:prize and the See also:Burney prize; and in 1849 he was elected to a fellowship, and began his See also:life of college lecturer and private See also:tutor . In 1862 he was made a See also:fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1865 a member of the Mathematical Society of London . In 1871 he gained the See also:Adams prize and was elected to the See also:council of the Royal Society . He was elected honorary fellow of St John's in 1874, having resigned his fellowship on his See also:marriage in 1864 . In 188o his eyesight began to fail, and shortly afterwards he was attacked with See also:paralysis . He died at Cambridge on the 1st of See also:March 1884 .

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