Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer

Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer (; 12 June 1918 – 10 March 2001) was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, physicist and academic.

Early life and family Eliezer was born on 12 June 1918 in Navatkuli in northern Ceylon. He was the son of Jacob Richard Eliezer and Elizabeth Ponnammah Vairakiam. Eliezer was educated at the Wesleyan Mission School, Puloly and Hartley College, Point Pedro (1926–33) where he passed the Cambridge Local Examinations with honours and distinction. He then spent a year studying at St. Joseph's College, Colombo before joining Ceylon University College in 1935, graduating with a first class honours B.Sc. special degree in mathematics.

Eliezer married Ranee, daughter of Rev. John Handy. Returning to Ceylon Eliezer lectured at the University of Ceylon for a brief period before rejoining Christ's College as a fellow (1946–49). Eliezer died on 10 March 2001 in Melbourne.

Works Eliezer wrote several books and articles including: Concise Vector Analysis (1963, Pergamon Press) A Modern Text-book on Statics: For Students of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Engineering (1964, Pergamon Press) Mathematics : Queen of the Arts, Handmaiden of the Sciences (1969, La Trobe University) The First Integrals of Some Differential Equations of Dynamics (1978, La Trobe University) Mechanics for Year Eleven (1988, co-author J. G. Barton)