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Bartholomew Price (
1818 -
29 December 1898) was an
English mathematician and
educator.
He was born at
Coln St Denis,
Gloucestershire, in 1818. He was educated at
Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college (after taking a first class in mathematics in 1840 and gaining the university mathematical scholarship in 1842) he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845. He at once took a leading position in the mathematical teaching of the university, and published treatises on the
Differential calculus (in 1848) and the
Infinitesimal calculus (4 vols., 1852-1860), which for long were the recognized textbooks there. This latter work included the
differential and
integral calculus, the
calculus of variations, the
theory of attractions, and
analytical mechanics.
In 1853 he was appointed
Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, resigning it in June 1898. His chief public activity at Oxford was in connection with the hebdomadal council, and with the
Clarendon Press, of which he was for many years secretary. He was also a curator of the
Bodleian Library, an honorary fellow of
the Queen's College, a governor of
Winchester College and a visitor of
Greenwich Observatory. In 1891 he was elected Master of Pembroke College, which dignity carried with it a canonry of
Gloucester Cathedral. He also sems to have donated an interesting astronomical clock to Gloucester cathedral. He died in December 1898.
See Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society (1899).
Nowadays, Professor Price is best remembered as one of the teachers of
Lewis Carroll. There is a reference to his nickname of 'the bat' in the
Mad Hatter's song "Twinkle twinkle little bat" (see
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star).
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