George Salmon

George Salmon ( born September 25, 1819 in Dublin, † January 22, 1904 in Dublin) was an Irish mathematician and theologian.

Salmon studied mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a Fellow in 1841. There he became friends with Arthur Cayley and James Joseph Sylvester. Besides mathematics, he also dealt with theology. He published several volumes of sermons, and in 1866 professor of theology at the University of Dublin, and in 1888 was elected Provost.

Salmon was a member ( "Fellow" ) elected in 1863 to the Royal Society, with the Royal Medal in 1889 honored him in 1868 with the Copley Medal.

His textbooks of analytical, projective and algebraic geometry ( invariant ) were issued in Germany by Otto Wilhelm Fiedler and known as in Germany in the 19th century as Salmon - Fiedler.

Felix Klein describes it in his history of mathematics in the 19th century (Vol. 1, pp. 164f ) and as a typical product of the venerable Trinity College Dublin, from mild, but in administrative matters tough conservative in nature, although the friendly received him at Klein's visit in 1899 chatted with local anecdotes, in mathematics but was no longer interested. His mathematical textbooks were renowned for small and enjoyed in his words rightly long period of great popularity. He compared it to a garden walk, they would offer no strict development, but a calm story about the many beautiful results of algebraic- geometric point of view, the progresses in easily readable conversational tone.

The asteroid ( 29700 ) Salmonella was named after him.

Writings

• Introduction to the New Testament. 8 A. 1894
• The Infallibility of the Church. 2 A. 1890
• Conic sections. Dublin ( 1848)
• Analytic geometry of three dimensions. Dublin ( 1862)
• The modern higher algebra. Dublin ( 1859)