Ernest Barnes

Ernest William Barnes ( born April 1, 1874 in Birmingham, England; † November 29, 1953 in Sussex ) was an English mathematician and theologian.

Life

Barnes ' parents were teachers, and Barnes went to school in Birmingham. In 1893 he began his studies of mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he in 1896 was Second Wrangler. In 1898 he won the Smith Prize and became a Fellow of Trinity. In 1902 he was a lecturer there in 1908 and tutor. In 1907 he was awarded the Sc.D. in Cambridge. In 1909 he was elected to the Royal Society. At the same time he suggested as a student theological career a - 1902 he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1915 he left Cambridge to be in London " Master of the Temple ". In 1918 he was canon at Westminster Abbey, and in 1924 Bishop of Birmingham. In 1952 he retired.

During his time as bishop, he was controversial because of his often unorthodox views, for example, by his 1947 book The Rise of Christianity.

Barnes wrote 29 mathematical research papers. The early deal with the gamma function. A significant achievement was that he introduced a higher gamma function, the so-called Barnes G- function that the functional equation

Sufficient.

Barnes was married and had two sons.