Clive W. Kilmister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clive W. Kilmister

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1924

Place of Birth: Epping, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-May-2010

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Clive W. Kilmister

  • Clive W.
  • Kilmister (January 3, 1924 – May 2, 2010) was a British Mathematician who specialised in the mathematical foundations of Physics, especially Quantum Mechanics and Relativity and published widely in these fields (see References).
  • He was one of the discoverers of the Combinatorial Hierarchy, along with A.
  • F.
  • Parker-Rhodes, E.
  • W.
  • Bastin, and J.C.Amson.
  • He was strongly influenced by astrophysicist Arthur Eddington and was well known for his elaboration and elucidation of Eddington's Fundamental theory. Kilmister attended Queen Mary College London for both his under- and postgraduate degrees.
  • His 1950 PhD on The Use of Quaternions in Wave-Tensor Calculus related to Eddington's work, and was supervised by cosmologist George C.
  • McVittie, who was one of Eddington's students.
  • His own students included Brian Tupper (1959, King's College London, now professor emeritus of general relativity and cosmology at University of New Brunswick Fredericton [1]), Samuel Edgar (1977, University of London), and Tony Crilly (reader in mathematical sciences at Middlesex University and author of The Big Questions: Mathematics [2] (1981).Kilmister was elected as a member of the London Mathematical Society during his doctoral studies (March 17, 1949).
  • Upon graduation, he began his career as an Assistant Lecturer in the Mathematics Department of King's College in 1950.
  • The entirety of his academic career was spent at King's.
  • In 1954, Kilmister founded the King's Gravitational Theory Group, in concert with Hermann Bondi and Felix Pirani, which focused on Einstein's theory of general relativity.
  • At retirement, Kilmister was both a Professor of Mathematics and Head of the King's College Mathematics Department.

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