George Salmon

George Salmon was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian, born in Cork in 1819, whose entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin. He entered Trinity in 1833, graduated in 1839 with first-class honours in mathematics and in 1841, aged 21, won a paid fellowship and teaching position in mathematics. In 1845 he was also appointed to a position in theology. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades he devoted the last forty years of his life to theology, and he served as the 32nd Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1888 until 1904.