death_place death_date birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date known_for doctoral_students prizes article_title name
oxford 05 june 1940 weston-super-mare england mathematics university of oxford 17 april 1863 theory of elasticity g. h. hardy royal -rrb- de morgan medal -lrb- 1926 -rrb- sylvester medal -lrb- medal 1937 -rrb- -lrb- 1909 -rrb- adams prize -lrb- 1911 augustus edward hough love
 augustus edward hough love
augustus edward hough love

augustus edward hough love frs -lrb- 17 april 1863 , weston-super-mare -- 5 june 1940 , oxford -rrb- , often known as a. e. h. love , was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity .
he also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the earth in `` some problems of geodynamics '' won for him the adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as love waves .
this work was published as a book with the help of the cambridge university press in 1911 .
it was published again in 1967 by dover , new york , usa .
love waves were discussed in chapter 11 of this book .
love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as love numbers , which are widely used today .
these numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the earth due to the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun .
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 .
his successful progress -lrb- he was placed second wrangler -rrb- vindicated his choice of mathematics , and in 1886 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 '' .
his other awards include the royal society royal medal in 1909 and sylvester medal in 1937 , the london mathematical society de morgan medal in 1926 .
he was secretary to the london mathematical society between 1895 and 1910 , and president for 1912 -- 1913 .
