About G. S. Carr
Lived 1837 – 1914 (aged 77). G. S. Carr was a British mathematician, university teacher and chess player.
George Shoobridge Carr (1837–1914) was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics. This book, first published in England in 1880, was read and studied closely by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan when he was a teenager. Ramanujan had already produced many theorems by the age of 15.
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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Who was G. S. Carr?
British mathematician (1837-1914)
When was G. S. Carr born?
G. S. Carr was born on 14 May 1837 in Teignmouth.
When did G. S. Carr die?
G. S. Carr died on 29 August 1914 in Easthampstead.
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G. S. Carr was a mathematician, university teacher and chess player.
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G. S. Carr was British.
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