G. S. Carr
British mathematician
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| Intro | British mathematician | |
| A.K.A. | George Shoobridge Carr | |
| A.K.A. | George Shoobridge Carr | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Mathematician Professor Educator Chess player | |
| Work field | Academia Mathematics Sports | |
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| Birth | 14 May 1837, Teignmouth, United Kingdom | |
| Death | 29 August 1914 (aged 77 years) | |
| Star sign | Taurus |
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George Shoobridge Carr (1837–1914) was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics (1886). This book, first published in England in 1880, was read and studied closely by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan when he was a teenager. Ramanujan had already produced many theorem by the age of 15.
Carr was a private coach for the Tripos mathematics examinations at the University of Cambridge, and the Synopsis was written as a study guide for those examinations.