Joseph Wolstenholme

Joseph Wolstenholme was an English mathematician, born: September 30 1829, Eccles near Manchester, England, died: November 18 1891.

He was a close friend of Leslie Stephens from his undergraduate studies at Cambridge and Virginia Woolf used his personality for Augustus Carmichael in her novel To the Lighthouse (The Lighthouse) from 1927. Wolstenholme was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, Egham near London from 1871 to 1889. He wrote Mathematical problems.

See also:

• Wolstenholme's numbers
• Wolstenholme's theorem

External link:

• University of St. Andrews' page: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Wolstenholme.html