Robert Franklin Muirhead, was a Scottish mathematician who discovered Muirhead"s inequality.
Education
After attending the Hamilton Academy and Paisley Grammar school he entered the University of Glasgow, graduating Bachelor of Science (1879) and Master of Arts (1881) gaining highest honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and the Ferguson Scholarship.
Career
Born at Shawlands, Glasgow, in January 1860, Robert Franklyn Muirhead received his early education from private tutors and the village school at Lochwinnoch. Muirhead was to publish many Papers on mathematics in the Proceedings and Mathematical Notes of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and in the Mathematical Gazette, but is principally known for his Papers on Inequalities and as the author of Muirhead"s inequality theory.
Membership
Muirhead was elected a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in February 1884, and twice elected its president (in 1899 and 1909) He was elected an Honorary Member of the Society in 1912.