1. Philip Kelland PRSE FRS was an English mathematician.
15 Facts About Philip Kelland
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Philip Kelland was known mainly for his great influence on the development of education in Scotland.
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Philip Kelland was educated at Sherborne, and was an undergraduate at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was tutored privately by English mathematician William Hopkins and graduated in 1834 as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman.
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Philip Kelland lived his final years at 20 Clarendon Crescent in western Edinburgh.
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Philip Kelland is buried in Warriston Cemetery in the north of the city.
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Philip Kelland was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1838.
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Philip Kelland was a successor to Scottish mathematician William Wallace.
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Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold that chair.
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Philip Kelland joined with Scottish physicist James David Forbes in supporting reforms of the Scottish university system.
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Philip Kelland won the respect of his colleagues, and was regarded highly as a mathematics instructor.
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Philip Kelland wrote on the reform of the Scottish universities.
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Philip Kelland wrote analytical papers on General Differentiation in 1839, and Differential Equations in 1853.
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Philip Kelland gave a geometrical Theory of Parallels outlining a version of non-Euclidean geometry.
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Philip Kelland wrote mathematics books and edited works of mathematician John Playfair and polymath Thomas Young.
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Philip Kelland married twice: firstly to "Miss Pilkington" secondly to Miss Boswall of Wardie.