Thomas Murray MacRobert

Thomas Murray MacRobert FRSE (4 April 1884, Dreghorn, Ayrshire – 1 November 1962, Glasgow) was a Scottish mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalization of the generalized hypergeometric series.

References

Biography of Thomas Murray MacRobert
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Thomas Murray MacRobert", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
Rankin, Robert A. (1964), "Thomas Murray MacRobert", Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series 39: 176–182, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-39.1.176, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0160703

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 61912753 ISNI: 0000 0001 1065 9456 SUDOC: 110885058

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