Augustus Edward Hough Love

Augustus Edward Hough Love ( born April 17, 1863 in Weston -super- Mare, England; † June 5, 1940 in Oxford ) was an English mathematician.

Life and work

Augustus Edward Hough Love was the son of a surgeon and coroner. In 1882 he started with a scholarship gained a degree in mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1884 he was in the Tripos exams Second Wrangler in 1886 and Fellow of the College. In 1887 he won the Smith Prize. In 1894 he was inducted into the Royal Society. In 1899 he was on the Sedleian professor of theoretical physics (Natural Philosophy) at the University of Oxford and was appointed to his Fellow' status in his old college to (but 1927 Honorary Fellow ). In 1927 he became a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

Love was known for his many works on theoretical continuum mechanics, be especially clearly written, historically well-founded textbook on elasticity theory. In 1911 he presented the first mathematical model for the propagation of Love waves, named after him (see: Seismic wave).

In 1911 he was awarded for his work on earthquake waves the Adams Prize. The Royal Society awarded him the Royal Medal in 1909 and 1937, the Sylvester Medal. In 1926 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society (LMS ), whose secretary he was from 1895 to 1910. 1912 to 1913 he was president of the LMS.

He never married. His youngest sister kept house for him.

Writings

• A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, 2 volumes, 1892, 1893
• Hydrodynamics, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences 1901