Edward Wakeford
Male, Deceased Person
1894 – 1916
Who was Edward Wakeford?
Edward Kingsley Wakeford was an English geometer.
Born at Plymouth, England, the son of Edward W. Wakeford of Gibraltar, E. K. was educated at Clifton then entered Trinity College, Cambridge with a mathematics scholarship in 1912. As a scholar of mathematics, he extended the work of the English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester on canonical binary forms for odd degrees, solving the forms for even degrees. At the time, he was recognized by some mathematicians as a future leader in the field of geometry. In September 1914, he was commissioned in the Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army and served during World War I. On July 26, 1916, he was killed in action on the Western Front.
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