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McCrea, William Hunter was born on December 13, 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of Robert Hunter and Margaret (Hutton) McCrea.
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Brief but rigorous, this text is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It covers the coordinate system, planes and lines, spheres, homogeneous coordinates, general equations of the second degree, quadric in Cartesian coordinates, and intersection of quadrics. Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, William H. McCrea conducted research in many areas and is best known for his work on relativity and cosmology. McCrea studied and taught at universities around the world, and this book is based on a series of his lectures.
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McCrea, William Hunter was born on December 13, 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of Robert Hunter and Margaret (Hutton) McCrea.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1929. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1931. Doctor of Science, Cambridge University, England, 1958.
Doctor of Science (honorary), National University Ireland, 1954. Doctor of Science (honorary), Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1970. Doctor of Science (honorary), National University Cordoba, Argentina, 1971.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Dublin University, 1972. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Sussex, England, 1979.
Lecturer in Mathematics, Edinburgh University 1930-1932. Reader in Mathematics, University of London and Assistant Professor Imperial College, of Science 1932-1936. Professor, of Mathematics, Queen's University of Belfast 1936-1944.
Temporary Principal Experimental Officer, Admiralty 1943-1945. Professor, of Mathematics, University of London (Royal Holloway College) 1944-1966. Comyns Berkeley Bye-Fellow, Caius College, Cambridge 1952-1953.
Visiting Professor, of Astronomy, University of California 1956, 1967, Case Institute of Technology 1964. Research Professor, of Theoretical Astronomy, University of Sussex 1966-1972, Emeritus since 1972. Fellow of Imperial College, of Science and Technology, London since 1967.
Georges Lemaitre Professor, University of Louvain 1969. Royal Society Leverhulme Visiting Professor Cairo 1973. Visiting Professor, of Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1975-1976.
Visiting Professor University of Istanbul 1977-1978. William Evans Visiting Professor University of Otago, New Zealand 1979. President Royal Astronomical Society 1961-1963, Treasure 1976-1979.
President Mathematics Association 1973-1974, Honorary.
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Author: Relativity Physics, 1935, Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions, 1942, Physics of the Sun and Stars, 1950, Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1975, Freeman of City of London, 1988.
Fellow Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society (president 1961-1963, Gold medal 1976) Royal Society Edinburgh (Keith prize 1939-1941). Member Royal Irish Academy, Leopoldina Academy (Halle), Turin Academy (foreign member). Clubs: Athenaeum (London).
Travel and walking.
Married Marian Nicol Core Webster, July 28, 1933. Children: Isabella, Sheila, Roderick.