Salmon

George Salmon

Born: 25 Sept 1819 in Cork, Ireland
Died: 22 Jan 1904 in Dublin, Ireland

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Salmon became interested in the algebraic approach to geometry taken by Cayley, Sylvester, Hermite and later by Clebsch. He became a close friend of Cayley and Sylvester. Salmon discovered, together with Cayley, the 27 lines on the cubic surface and himself made many discoveries about ruled surfaces and other surfaces.

Salmon is best remembered for his textbooks written between 1848 and 1862.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R S Ball, George Salmon, Proc. London Math. Soc. 1 (1903-4), 22-28. 
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