Joseph Wolstenholme was an English mathematician, born in Eccles near Salford in 1829 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Third Wrangler in 1850 and became a fellow of Christ's College in 1852. He wrote a Treatise on Solid Geometry with Percival Frost, and his book Mathematical Problems, gathered from examination papers, influenced generations of Cambridge undergraduates. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill from 1871 to 1889, and his name is attached to Wolstenholme's theorem.
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He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge as Third Wrangler in 1850 and was elected a fellow of Christ's College in 1852.
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a Treatise on Solid Geometry was published in 1863
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30 September 1829
Wolstenholme's theorem (Wikipedia)
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The theorem was first proved by Joseph Wolstenholme in 1862.
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first proved by Joseph Wolstenholme in 1862
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