Background
He was born in Cambridge the son of Henty Baker, a butler, and Sarah Ann Britham.
Astronomer mathematician university professor
He was born in Cambridge the son of Henty Baker, a butler, and Sarah Ann Britham.
He was educated at The Perse School before winning a scholarship to, Cambridge in October 1884. Baker graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1887, bracketed with 3 others
Baker was elected Fellow of Street John"s in 1888 where he remained for 68 years. In June, 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1911, he gave the presidential address to the London Mathematical Society.
In January 1914 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy.
Firstly in 1893 to Lilly Isabella Hamfield Klopp, who died in 1903, then he remarried in 1913, to Muriel Irene Woodyard.
(Excerpt from An Introduction To: The Theory of Multiply P...)
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
(An Introduction toT hT heory of Multiply Periodic Functio...)
(Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part...)
Royal Society]
Gordon Welchman recalled that in the 1930s before the war Dennis Babbage and himself were members of a group of geometers known as Professor Baker’s "Tea Party", who met once a week to discuss the areas of research in which we were all interested.
