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