25 Facts About Harry Bateman

Harry Bateman FRS was an English mathematician with a specialty in differential equations of mathematical physics.

Harry Bateman was born in Manchester, England, on 29 May 1882.

Harry Bateman studied with coach Robert Alfred Herman to prepare for the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.

Harry Bateman studied in Gottingen and Paris, and taught at the University of Liverpool and University of Manchester.

Harry Bateman was thoroughly trained in both pure analysis and mathematical physics, and retained an equal interest in both throughout his scientific career.

Harry Bateman was an applied mathematician from Cambridge who worked in the field of fluid mechanics.

Harry Bateman seemed to know everything but did nothing important.

Harry Bateman married Ethel Horner in 1912 and had a son named Harry Graham, who died as a child.

Harry Bateman died on his way to New York in 1946 of coronary thrombosis.

In 1907, Harry Bateman was lecturing at the University of Liverpool together with another senior wrangler, Ebenezer Cunningham.

In nuclear physics, the Harry Bateman equation is a mathematical model describing abundances and activities in a decay chain as a function of time, based on the decay rates and initial abundances.

Harry Bateman showed that the Jacobian matrix of a spacetime diffeomorphism which preserves the Maxwell equations is proportional to an orthogonal matrix, hence conformal.

Harry Bateman called the elements of this group spherical wave transformations.

Harry Bateman, perhaps influenced by Hilbert's point of view in mathematical physics as a whole, was the first to see that the basic ideas of electromagnetism were equivalent to statements regarding integrals of differential forms, statements for which Grassmann's calculus of extension on differentiable manifolds, Poincare's theories of Stokesian transformations and integral invariants, and Lie's theory of continuous groups could be fruitfully applied.

Harry Bateman was the first to apply Laplace transform to the integral equation in 1906.

Harry Bateman submitted a detailed report on integral equations in 1911 to the British association for the advancement of science.

In 1914, Harry Bateman published The Mathematical Analysis of Electrical and Optical Wave-motion.

Harry Bateman is author of Hydrodynamics and Numerical integration of differential equations.

Harry Bateman wrote two significant articles on the history of applied mathematics: "The influence of tidal theory upon the development of mathematics", and "Hamilton's work in dynamics and its influence on modern thought".

Harry Bateman went on to study the luminiferous aether with an article "The structure of the Aether".

Harry Bateman's starting point is the bivector form of an electromagnetic field,.

Harry Bateman recalled Alfred-Marie Lienard's electromagnetic fields, and then distinguished another type he calls "aethereal fields":.

Harry Bateman received many honours for his contributions, including election to the American Philosophical Society in 1924, election to the Royal Society of London in 1928, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1930.

Harry Bateman was elected as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society in 1935 and was the Society's Gibbs Lecturer for 1943.

Harry Bateman was on his way to New York to receive an award from the Institute of Aeronautical Science when he died of coronary thrombosis.