George Peacock
1791–1858
Mathematician and university reformer. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1813. Tutor in mathematics at Trinity College, 1823–39. Lowndean Professor of astronomy and geometry, Cambridge University, 1837–58. Dean of Ely, 1839–58. FRS 1818.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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