Augustus Edward Hough Love
English mathematical physicist (1863–1940)
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Life and career
He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and in 1881 won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he was at first undecided whether to study classics or mathematics. In the Mathematical Tripos of 1885 he placed as Second Wrangler, vindicating his choice of mathematics. The next year he was elected Fellow of the college. In 1899 he was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Oxford, a position which he retained until his death in 1940. He was also a Fellow of Queen's College.
He authored the two volume classic, A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity.
He was the author of several articles in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, including Elasticity and Infinitesimal Calculus.
His other awards include the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1909 and Sylvester Medal in 1937, and the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society in 1926. He was secretary to the London Mathematical Society between 1895 and 1910, and president for 1912–1913.