Albert Eagle

Albert Eagle was an English mathematician who wrote several books (some of them privately published) giving his forcefully expressed and somewhat eccentric views on science and mathematics. He was an assistant to J. J. Thomson, and was later a lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester. His best-known book is on elliptic functions,^[1] where he uses his idiosyncratic mathematical notation, such as τ instead of π/2,^[2] and !n for n factorial. In his other writings he dismissed special relativity, quantum mechanics, natural selection, and English spelling as absurdities.^[3]

Publications

• Eagle, Albert (1925), A practical treatise on Fourier's theorem and harmonic analysis for physicists and engineers, Longmans, Green and Co.
• Eagle, Albert (1935), The philosophy of religion versus the philosophy of science: an exposure of the worthlessness and absurdity of some conventional conclusions of modern science, Privately printed. Review
• Eagle, Albert (1938), Difficulties underlying the Einstein-Eddington conception of curved space, Harrison & Sons Ltd.
• Eagle, Albert (1939), "Series for all the roots of a trinomial equation", Amer. Math. Monthly 46: 422–425, doi:10.2307/2303036, MR 0000005
• Eagle, Albert (1939), "Series for all the roots of the equation (z−a)^m=k(z−b)ⁿ", Amer. Math. Monthly 46: 425–428, MR 0000006
• Eagle, Albert (1939), "Motion of the Spiral Nebulæ", Nature 143 (3629): 856, doi:10.1038/143856a0
• Eagle, Albert (1954), A modern religious philosophy, World spiritual education series 2, Voice Publishers
• Eagle, Albert (1955), Literary phonetic English: suggested principles and practice for English spelling reform, A. Eagle
• Eagle, Albert (1958), The elliptic functions as they should be: an account, with applications, of the functions in a new canonical form, Galloway and Porter, Ltd., Cambridge, England, ISBN 9780852500002, MR 0093599, Zbl 0083.07401 Review by Robert Lerner

References

1. Eagle (1958)
2. Eagle (1958), p. ix
3. Bowler (2001), p.142

Bibliography

• "The conception of curved space: report on a lecture by Albert Eagle", Nature 141, 1938: 679, doi:10.1038/141679a0
• Bowler, P. J. (2001), Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain, Science and its conceptual foundations, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-06858-9
• Eagle, Albert (1958), The elliptic functions as they should be: an account, with applications, of the functions in a new canonical form, Galloway and Porter, Ltd., Cambridge, England, ISBN 9780852500002, MR 0093599, Zbl 0083.07401

External links

• Papers by Albert Eagle on ADS