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    Philip Kelland PRSE FRS (17 October 1808 – 8 May 1879) was an English mathematician. He was known mainly for his great influence on the development of...
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  • Freemason John Kelland (politician) Peter Kelland (1926–2011), English cricketer Philip Kelland (1808–1879), English mathematician Eve Louise Kelland (1889–1943)...
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    included Sir William Hamilton, who lectured him on logic and metaphysics, Philip Kelland on mathematics, and James Forbes on natural philosophy. He did not find...
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  • Airy and published in about 1840. A similar equation was also found by Philip Kelland at around the same time (but making some mistakes in his derivation...
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    1833 Alexander Ellice Gonville and Caius Joseph Bowstead Pembroke 1834 Philip Kelland Queens' Thomas Rawson Birks Trinity 1835 Henry Cotterill St John's Henry...
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    Unsurprisingly, Fourier's work had been attacked by domestic mathematicians, Philip Kelland authoring a critical book. The book motivated Thomson to write his first...
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  • Denon Heath, Samuel Laing 1833 Alexander Ellice, Joseph Bowstead 1834 Philip Kelland, Thomas Rawson Birks 1835 Henry Cotterill, Henry Goulburn 1836 Archibald...
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    other an Introduction to Quaternions (1873), in which he was aided by Philip Kelland (1808–1879), one of his teachers at the University of Edinburgh. Quaternions...
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    as well as in his further Introduction to Quaternions jointly with Philip Kelland in 1873. The area of the inner Napoleon triangle of a triangle with...
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  • Edinburgh's Second New Town. Pilkington studied mathematics under Professor Philip Kelland at the University of Edinburgh, passed his exams in 1858 and was Hamilton...
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