William Henry Young

William Henry Young FRS was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus amongst other fields, and made brilliant and long-lasting contributions to the study of functions of several complex variables. He was the husband of Grace Chisholm Young and father of Laurence Chisholm Young. Young's Theorem was named after him.

In 1913 he was the first to be appointed to the newly created chair of Hardinge Professorship of Pure Mathematics in Calcutta University which he held from 1913 to 1917. He also held the part-time Professorship of Philosophy and the History of Mathematics at the University of Liverpool from 1913 to 1919.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 2 May 1907. He served as the president of the London Mathematical Society from 1922 to 1924. In 1917 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal of London Mathematical Society and in 1928 the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society.

He served as the president of the International Mathematical Union from 1929 to 1936.

Works

Young, William Henry (1910). The fundamental theorems of the differential calculus. Cambridge University Press.

William Henry Young, Grace Chisholm Young (1905). The first book of geometry. J. M. Dent.

William Henry Young, Grace Chisholm Young (1906). The theory of sets of points. Cambridge University Press.

• ********************************** Name: Wm Henry Young

Event Type: Marriage  

Event Date: 14 Sep 1909  

Event Place: Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada  

Age: 46  

Birth Year (Estimated): 1863  

Father's Name: Phillip Young  

Mother's Name: Eveline Englehart  

Spouse's Name: Lillian Falk  

Spouse's Age: 25  

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1884  

Spouse's Father's Name: Adam Falk  

Spouse's Mother's Name: Marie Morlock  

Page: 008606  

Digital Folder Number: 004529574  

GS Film Number: 1872063 , Image Number: 00625

• ************************************* Michigan, Death Certificates

Name: William Henry Young  

Event Type: Death  

Event Date: 03 Jul 1942  

Event Place: Howell, Livingston, Michigan, United States  

Gender: Male  

Age: 79  

Marital Status: Married  

Birth Date: 27 Feb 1863  

Birthplace: Hamburg Ontario, Canada  

Birth Year (Estimated): 1863  

Father's Name: Philip Young  

Mother's Name: Evelyn Engelhart  

GS Film number: 1972850 , Digital Folder Number: 005237815 , Image Number:

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