Английская Википедия:Bartholomew Price

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Reverend Bartholomew Price (1818Шаблон:Snd29 December 1898) was an English mathematician, clergyman and educator.

Life

Bartholomew Price was born at Coln St Denis, Gloucestershire, in 1818, the son of the Revd W. Price, Rector of that parish. He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford and took first-class hours in the Final Honours School of Mathematics in 1840. In 1842 he won the university mathematical scholarship and in 1844 was ordained and was elected Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Pembroke College. He at once took a leading position in the mathematical teaching of the university, and published treatises on the Differential calculus in 1848 and the Infinitesimal calculus (4 vols.) in 1852–1860. This latter work included the differential and integral calculus, the calculus of variations, the theory of attractions, and analytical mechanics.

In 1853 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, a position he held until June 1898. His chief public activity at Oxford was in connection with the Hebdomadal Council, and with the Clarendon Press, of which he was for many years secretary. He was also a curator of the Bodleian Library, an honorary fellow of The Queen's College, a governor of Winchester College and a visitor of Greenwich Observatory. In 1891, he was elected Master of Pembroke College, which dignity carried with it a canonry of Gloucester Cathedral. He also seems to have donated an interesting astronomical clock to Gloucester cathedral.

In 1889 he was one of the shareholders in Silver's factory in Silvertown, East London, an immensely profitable rubber company. That year saw a major strike by Silver's workers for higher pay but after 12 weeks the strikers were forced back to work by hunger. Bartholomew Price was the shareholder who moved the motion of thanks in the Managing Director at the shareholders meeting in February 1890.

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from c.1887 until his death in December 1898.

The Revd Bartholomew Price died in December 1898 and was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.

Nowadays, Professor Price is best remembered as one of the teachers of Lewis Carroll. There is a reference to his nickname of 'the bat' in the Mad Hatter's song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat", a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Writings

• An essay on the relation of the several parts of a mathematical science to the fundamental idea therein contained (1849)
• A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 1: Differential calculus (1857)
• A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 2. Integral calculus and calculus of variations
• A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 3. Statics attractions, dynamics of material particle
• A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus v. 4: The dynamics of material systems (1862)