About George Jerrard
Lived 1804 – 1863 (aged 58). George Jerrard was a British mathematician.
George Birch Jerrard (25 November 1804 – 23 November 1863) was a British mathematician.
He studied at Trinity College, Dublin from 1821 to 1827. His main work was on the theory of equations, where he was reluctant to accept the validity of the work of Niels Henrik Abel on the insolubility of the quintic equation by radicals. He found a way of using Tschirnhaus transformations to eliminate three of the terms in an equation, which generalised work of Erland Bring (1736–1798), and is now called Bring–Jerrard normal form.
Works An essay on the resolution of equations, part 1, London 1858, (online).
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Who was George Jerrard?
British mathematician (1804–1863)
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George Jerrard was born on 25 November 1804 in Bodmin.
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George Jerrard died on 23 November 1863 in Norfolk, Long Stratton.
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George Jerrard was a mathematician.
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