Edmund Robertson
British mathematician (born 1943)
About Edmund Robertson
Born 1943. Edmund Robertson is a British mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher and historian.
Edmund Frederick Robertson (born 1 June 1943) is a British mathematician who is a professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2015, he received together with his colleague O'Connor, the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society for his work on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. His thesis on "Classes of Generalised Nilpotent Groups" was done with Stewart E. Stonehewer.
Personal life He is with his wife, Helena, and his two sons.
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