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and he were members of a group of geometers known as
Professor Baker's "Tea Party", who met once a week to discuss the areas of research in which we were all interested.
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Principles of geometry. Volume 4. Higher geometry. Being illustrations of the utility of the consideration of higher space, especially of four and five dimensions
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Baker was one of the mathematicians (along with E. W. Hobson) to whom
Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote before G. H. Hardy but his papers were returned without comment.
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He married twice. Firstly in 1893 to Lilly
Isabella Hamfield Klopp, who died in 1903, then he remarried in 1913, to Muriel Irene Woodyard.
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This article is about Henry
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Principles of geometry. Volume 3. Solid geometry. Quadrics, cubic curves in space, cubic surfaces.
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Principles of geometry. Volume 2. Plane geometry, Conics, circles, non-Euclidean geometry
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Principles of geometry. Volume 5. Analytical principles of the theory of curves
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Baker was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.
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An introduction to the theory of multiply periodic functions
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the son of Henry Baker, a butler, and Sarah Ann
Britham.
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Plane geometry. Conics, circles, non-Euclidean geometry
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Biographical
Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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366:, with his second wife Muriel (1885 - 1956).
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265:(3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a British
662:(1956). "Henry Frederick Baker 1866-1956".
273:, but also remembered for contributions to
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775:"Baker, Henry Frederick (BKR883HF)"
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619:An Introduction to Plane Geometry
342:In January 1914 he was appointed
44:Henry Frederick Baker (1866-1956)
16:British mathematician (1866–1956)
580:, Cambridge Library Collection,
548:, Cambridge Library Collection,
516:, Cambridge Library Collection,
484:, Cambridge Library Collection,
444:, Cambridge Library Collection,
404:, Cambridge Library Collection,
376:Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula
309:before winning a scholarship to
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892:10.1090/S0002-9904-1925-04065-3
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574:Baker, Henry Frederick (1933),
542:Baker, Henry Frederick (1933),
510:Baker, Henry Frederick (1925),
478:Baker, Henry Frederick (1923),
438:Baker, Henry Frederick (1922),
398:Baker, Henry Frederick (1922),
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344:Lowndean Professor of Astronomy
328:In June, 1898 he was elected a
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275:partial differential equations
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330:Fellow of the Royal Society
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582:Cambridge University Press
550:Cambridge University Press
518:Cambridge University Press
486:Cambridge University Press
446:Cambridge University Press
406:Cambridge University Press
21:Frederick Baker (director)
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177:University of Cambridge
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910:Principles of geometry
866:Principles of geometry
826:Principles of geometry
678:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0004
1158:George Neville Watson
923:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
906:Brown, B. H. (1926).
879:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
862:Woods, F. S. (1925).
835:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
257:Henry Frederick Baker
54:Henry Frederick Baker
32:Professor Henry Baker
1423:De Morgan Medallists
1334:John Griggs Thompson
1326:Keith William Morton
1110:Godfrey Harold Hardy
978:De Morgan Medallists
701:Robertson, Edmund F.
269:, working mainly in
222:Edwin Arthur Maxwell
699:O'Connor, John J.;
305:He was educated at
755:on 24 January 2013
386:Eleven-point conic
271:algebraic geometry
237:Thomas Gerald Room
86:Cambridge, England
1360:
1359:
1278:Albrecht Fröhlich
1238:C. Ambrose Rogers
1166:A. S. Besicovitch
1054:J. W. L. Glaisher
591:978-1-108-01782-4
559:978-1-108-01781-7
527:978-1-108-01780-0
495:978-1-108-01779-4
463:978-1-108-01778-7
423:978-1-108-01777-0
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146:Scientific career
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1378:1956 deaths
1373:1866 births
1302:J. A. Green
1222:Kurt Mahler
1206:Philip Hall
1078:W. H. Young
1062:Horace Lamb
1046:H. F. Baker
1014:Felix Klein
908:"Review of
864:"Review of
824:"Review of
641:H. F. Baker
64:3 July 1866
1367:Categories
1254:K. F. Roth
1198:Max Newman
1022:S. Roberts
912:, Vol. 3:
868:, Vol. 2:
745:090219884X
625:References
289:Early life
283:Lie groups
60:1866-07-03
1070:J. Larmor
672:: 49–68.
301:Education
295:Cambridge
70:, England
68:Cambridge
370:See also
279:solitons
164:Geometry
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