Edward Lindsay Ince

Edward Lindsay Ince FRSE (30 November 1891 Amblecote, Staffordshire, England – 16 March 1941 Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British mathematician who worked on differential equations, especially those with period coefficients such as the Mathieu equation and the Lamé equation. He introduced the Ince equation, a generalization of the Mathieu equation. He won the Smith's Prize in 1918 and was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1923, which awarded him the Makdougall Brisbane Prize for 1938–1940 for his work on periodic Lamé functions (Ince 1940a, 1940b).

Publications

• Ince, E. L. (1915), A course in descriptive geometry and photogrammetry for the mathematical laboratory, Edinburgh mathematical tracts, G. Bell & Sons, Limited
• Ince, E. L. (1933), Principles of descriptive geometry, E. Arnold
• Ince, Edward L. (1939), Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, MR 0000325
• Ince, Edward L. (1940a), "The periodic Lamé functions", Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 60: 47–63, MR 0002399
• Ince, Edward L. (1940b), "Further investigations into the periodic Lamé functions", Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 60: 83–99, MR 0002400
• Ince, Edward L. (1944) [1926], Ordinary Differential Equations, Dover Publications, New York, ISBN 978-0-486-60349-0, MR 0010757

References

• Aitken, A. C. (1941), "Obituary: Dr. E. L. Ince", Nature. International Weekly Journal of Science 148: 309.310, doi:10.1038/148309b0, ISSN 0028-0836
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Lindsay Ince", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Whittaker, E. T. (1941), "Obituary: Edward Lindsay Ince. 1891–1941", Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series 16: 139–144, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-16.2.139, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0005069
• Young, A. W. (1941), "Obituary: Edward Lindsay Ince, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E", Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Series II 6: 263–264, ISSN 0013-0915, MR 0005070
• Young, A. W. (1942), "Edward Lindsay Ince, M.A., D.Sc.", Royal Society of Edinburgh Year Book: 18

External links

• Works by or about Edward Lindsay Ince at Internet Archive