Young

William Henry Young

Born: 20 Oct 1863 in London, England
Died: 7 July 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland

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Young did significant work in measure theory and Fourier analysis. He married Grace Chisholm, who was a pupil of Klein, and together they formed a mathematical married partnership of real significance.

Young discovered Lesbegue integration, independently but 2 years after Lebesgue. He studied Fourier series and orthogonal series in general. All advanced calculus books now use his approach to functions of several complex variables.

Young was professor of mathematics at Calcutta, in India, from 1913 to 1917.

Young was trapped in France when France fell in 1940. He was forced to spend the last two years of his life there separated from his family.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G H Hardy, William Henry Young, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 4 (1943), 307-323.
  3. William Henry Young, J. London Math. Soc. 17 (1942), 218-237.
  4. M R Chowdhury, W H Young at Aberystwyth, Historia Mathematica 19 (1992), 71-75.
  5. S S Chakrabarty, William Henry Young and mathematics, Ganita-Bharati. Bulletin of the Indian Society for the History of Mathematics 9 (1987), 41-44. 
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