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H. F. Baker, F.R.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

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Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1957

References

1 Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 41 (1894), 62. The volume was completed in 1894, but the paper itself was published in 1889.Google Scholar

2 Letters and numerals in heavy type refer to the bibliography at the close of this notice.

1 In his Presidential Address to Section A of the British Association at Birmingham in 1914.

1 A positive integer n enclosed in square brackets denotes a linear space of n dimensions.

1 Hodge's proof thus provides also a proof of Severi's lemma. Another proof of this lemma has just (July 1956) been published by D. B. Scott.

1 Nature, 117.

1 Mrs Baker died on 17th December 1956.

1 Several of the personal details above recorded have been provided by Miss Joyce Baker, who has given generously of her time and been most tolerant of inquiries.