Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.
R. W. H. T. Hudson | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 September 1904 | (aged 29)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of London |
Awards | Smith's Prize (1900) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions | University of Liverpool |
Ronald W.H.T. Hudson was considered in his day to be the most gifted geometer in all of Cambridge. Hudson's life was cut short when he died in a mountaineering accident at the age of 28, but his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface allows mathematicians today access to his work.[1]
He was the son of W.H.H. Hudson, Professor of mathematics at King's College London. Hudson's sister, Hilda Hudson was likewise a gifted mathematician, being a graduate of Newnham, a lecturer at the University of Berlin, and ultimately being awarded the O.B.E. in 1919.[2]