Campbell

John Edward Campbell

Born: 27 May 1862 in Lisburn, Co Antrim, Ireland
Died: 1 Oct 1924 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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John Campbell was educated at University College Belfast and Oxford and became a fellow in 1887. His book Lie's Theory of Finite Continuous Groups (1903) introduced Lie's ideas to British mathematicians.

Campbell is remembered for the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff theorem which gives a formula for multiplication of exponentials in Lie algebras. His research turned later to differential geometry. After a son was killed in World War I, Campbell seemed to give up mathematical research.

References:

  1. Obituary of John Edward Cambpell, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 107 (1925), ix - xii. 
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