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Arthur Stanley Ramsey
British mathematician

Arthur Stanley Ramsey

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British mathematician
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Frank P. Ramsey Michael Ramsey Bridget Barcroft
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Arthur Stanley Ramsey (1867 – 31 December 1954) was a British mathematician and author of mathematics and physics textbooks. He was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and its President from 1915–1937.
The son of Rev. Adam Averell Ramsey, a Congregational minister, and his wife Hephzibah, Ramsey was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge (M.A., 1893).
He was a Master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897, moving into academia in 1897.
In 1902 Ramsey married (Mary) Agnes (1875-1927), daughter of Rev. Plumpton Stravenson Wilson, Vicar of Horbling, Lincs. and sister to the cricketer and footballer Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson. Mary herself was academically accomplished, having earned a Class II Honours Certificate in Modern History from St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Ramsey and his wife had two daughters, Bridget and Margaret, and two sons, philosopher and mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930) and Michael Ramsey (1904–1988) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury for thirteen years. Mary Agnes was killed in 1927 in a road traffic accident
He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his son Frank and wife Margaret are buried in the same plot.

Publication

  • Ramsey, A. S. (1956). An Introduction to the Theory of Newtonian Attraction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

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