Ernest William Barnes
| Ernest William Barnes | |
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Ernest W. Barnes
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| Born |
1 April 1874 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 29 November 1953 (aged 79) Sussex, England |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematician and bishop |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | W. W. Rouse Ball |
| Doctoral students | J. E. Littlewood |
| Known for | Work on the gamma function |
| Notable awards |
Smith's Prize (1898) Fellow of the Royal Society |
Ernest William Barnes FRS (1 April 1874 – 29 November 1953) was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a liberal theologian and bishop.
He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Master of the Temple from 1915 to 1919. He was made Bishop of Birmingham in 1924, the only bishop appointed during Ramsay MacDonald's first term in office. His modernist views, in particular objection to Reservation, led to conflict with the Anglo-Catholics in his diocese. A major biography by his son, Sir John Barnes, "Ahead of His Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham", was published in 1979.
Barnes was the eldest of four sons of John Starkie Barnes and Jane Elizabeth Kerry, both elementary school head-teachers. In 1883 Barnes' father was appointed Inspector of Schools in Birmingham, a position that he occupied throughout the rest of his working life. Barnes was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and in 1893 went up to Cambridge as a Scholar of Trinity College. He was bracketed Second Wrangler in 1896 and was placed in the first division of the first class in Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in 1897. In the following year he was awarded the first Smith's Prize and was duly elected to a Trinity Fellowship. During his time as a Fellow he served on the committee of Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1899 to 1901. He was appointed a lecturer in mathematics in 1902, junior dean in 1906–08 and a tutor in 1908. He graduated Sc.D. of the University of Cambridge in 1907 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. In the years that followed, Barnes was assigned to be Ramanujan's tutor and agreed with Hardy's assessment of his brilliance.
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