biography
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Smith, Henry (John Stephen)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1826–83)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a fellow, and in 1860 professor of geometry. The greatest authority of his day on the theory of numbers, he also wrote on elliptic functions and modern geometry. |
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