- Ebenezer Cunningham
Ebenezer Cunningham (
7 May 1881 ,Hackney ,London –12 Feb 1977 )was a Britishmathematician who made significant mathematical contributions to the development ofspecial relativity .He went up to
St John's College, Cambridge in 1899 and graduatedSenior Wrangler in 1902, winning theSmith's Prize in 1904. He was elected a fellow of St John's and appointed lecturer at theUniversity of Liverpool , moving toUniversity College London in 1907 and returning to Cambridge in 1911. According to Warwick (see reference), Cunningham andHarry Bateman performed a pivotal role in the development of mathematical physics. Cunningham's portrait appears on page 410 of Warwick's work.His book "The Principle of Relativity" was one of the first treatises in English about special relativity, along with those by A.A. Robb and
Ludwik Silberstein .He was an ardent pacifist, strongly religious, a member of
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge and chairman of theCongregational Union of England and Wales for 1953-54.External links
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References
* W H McCrea, "Ebenezer Cunningham", "Bull. London Math. Soc." 10 (1978), 116-126 [http://blms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/10/1/116.pdf subscription required]
* Andrew Warwick (2003) "Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics", University of Chicago Press, pp. 409-36.
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