Charles Henry Rowe

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Charles Henry Rowe (9 February 1893, Cork – 4 December 1943) was an Irish mathematician, specializing in geometry.[1] He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (1926-1943).[2]

Career

Rowe received his bachelor's degree from University College Cork in 1914 and his M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 1917. He was a close friend of the mathematical physicist J. L. Synge.[3] By winning a competitive examination in 1920, Rowe became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and retained the fellowship until his death. He spent the academic year 1920–1921 in Paris, where he studied under Hadamard, Lebesgue, and Goursat.[citation needed]

From 1923 to 1926 he was the Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics at TCD[1] and, after a probationary period as an acting professor,[4] was appointed in 1926 to the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics, retaining the position until his death.[1]

In 1932 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM, with talk Subspaces associated with certain systems of curves in a Riemannian space, in 1932 in Zurich. The Rowe Prize of Trinity College Dublin was established in 1959 by a bequest from his widow, Olive Marjorie Rowe.[5]

Selected publications

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