Joseph Wolstenholme
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Joseph Wolstenholme (September 30, 1829 - November 18, 1891) was an English mathematician. His sister was the feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme.
Wolstenholme was born in Eccles near Salford, Lancashire, England. He became a professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, Egham near London from 1871 to 1889, and was the author of Mathematical problems.
He was a close friend of Leslie Stephen from his undergraduate studies at Cambridge. Virginia Woolf used his personality for the character Augustus Carmichael in her novel To the Lighthouse.
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- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Joseph Wolstenholme". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
