Edward Lindsay Ince

Edward Lindsay Ince ( born November 30, 1891 in Amblecote, Staffordshire, † March 16, 1941 in Edinburgh ) was a British mathematician.

Ince was in Wales and in Scotland (Perth ) to school, studied from 1909 to 1913 Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1915 and conducted research at Cambridge University, for which he was awarded the 1917 Smith Prize. From military service he was due, he was freed on medical grounds, but worked in the further course of the First World War for the military. In 1918 he became a lecturer at the University of Leeds and 1920 at the University of Liverpool. 1926 to 1931 he built the mathematics faculty at the University of Cairo. 1931/32 he taught first in Edinburgh and then to 1935 at Imperial College in London, before he became a professor at the University of Edinburgh.

He dealt with ordinary differential equations and their solutions, for example, with special features of Mathieu and Lamé, and wrote a then standard work on differential equations. A differential equation of 2nd order, which is verallgeme the Mathieugleichung named after him and their solutions ( Ince polynomials ).

He was married in 1924 and had two daughters.

In 1923 he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Shortly before his death he received the Makdougall Brisbane Prize for his work on the Lamé functions, but he could not take delivery.

Writings

• Ordinary Differential Equations, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1927, reprint Dover 1944
• Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Oliver and Boyd 1939, 1943 (2nd edition after his death, edited by Arthur Erdélyi ). German translation: The integration of ordinary differential equations, BI university paperbacks in 1965