Craik, Alex D. D. (Author)
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 28, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 124-131
Between 1809 and 1820, Thomas Knight (1775--1853) published quite a few papers on mathematics and its applications. These show him to have been surprisingly well-versed in French analytical mathematics at a time when French works were little read by his British contemporaries. In BSHM Bulletin 2, Gloria Edwards and I published a paper (Craik and Edwards 2004) entitled `In search of Thomas Knight', designated below as `[1]', that examined Knight's life and work. This follow-up paper gives further biographical information that links him with Edinburgh; it describes some more of his publications that were previously overlooked (for notice of the latter, I am grateful to a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous); and it records some remarks about his work by his contemporaries.
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