G. S. Carr

Mathematician, Author

1837 – 1914

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Who was G. S. Carr?

George Shoobridge Carr was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics. This book, first published in England in 1880, was read and studied closely by Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan when he was a teenager.

Carr was a private coach for the Tripos mathematics examinations at the University of Cambridge, and the Synopsis was written as a study guide for those examinations.

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Born
1837
Also known as
  • George Shoobridge Carr
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Died
1914

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on July 23, 2013

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