George Gibson (mathematician)
George Alexander Gibson FRSE LLD was a Scottish mathematician and academic writer.
Life
He was born on 19 April 1858 in Greenlaw in Berwickshire the third son of Robert Gibson JP. He attended the free church school in the parish, and showing great promise, went to the University of Glasgow where he graduated with an MA in 1882 and immediately joined the university staff.In 1889, aged 29, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Prof William Jack, Sir Thomas Muir and George Chrystal. He served as the society's vice president from 1917 to 1920. He also served as president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. In 1895 he became a professor of mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1909 he returned to the University of Glasgow as a professor, replacing his mentor Prof William Jack.
Gibson lived on campus at 10 The university, Glasgow. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1905 and the University of Glasgow did likewise in 1927, the year of his retiral.