1. Andrew Forsyth studied at Liverpool College and was tutored by Richard Pendlebury before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1881.
11 Facts About Andrew Forsyth
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Andrew Forsyth was elected a fellow of Trinity and then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24.
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Andrew Forsyth returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in 1884 and became Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in 1895.
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Andrew Forsyth was elected President of the Mathematical Association for 1903.
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Andrew Forsyth became professor at the Imperial College of Science in 1913 and retired in 1923, remaining mathematically active into his seventies.
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Andrew Forsyth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1886 and won its Royal Medal in 1897.
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Andrew Forsyth was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome.
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Andrew Forsyth is remembered much more as an author of treatises than as an original researcher.
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Andrew Forsyth's books have often been criticized.
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Andrew Forsyth died in London on 2 June 1942 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
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Andrew Forsyth received the degree of Doctor mathematicae from the Royal Frederick University on 6 September 1902, when they celebrated the centennial of the birth of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.