Arthur Stanley Ramsey

Arthur Stanley Ramsey (9 September 1867 to 31 December 1954) was a British mathematician who wrote textbooks in mathematics and physics. He was the son of Adam Averell Ramsey, a Congregational minister at Dewsbury, and was educated at Batley Grammar School and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics and graduated as sixth wrangler in 1889. After working as an assistant master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Magdalene. He served as the college bursar from 1904 to 1913, was President of Magdalene from 1915 to 1952, and was university lecturer in mathematics from 1926 to 1932. As a tutor he supervised the mathematics work of William Empson, who later applied tools of analytical logic to literary criticism. His books include a treatise on hydromechanics written with W. H. Besant and a later introduction to the theory of Newtonian attraction. He was the father of the philosopher and mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey and of Michael Ramsey, who became Archbishop of Canterbury.