James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (5 November 1848 – 7 December 1928) son of James Glaisher
James Glaisher
James Glaisher FRS , was an English meteorologist and aeronaut.Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker, Glaisher was a Junior assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1833 to 1835 before moving to the Royal Greenwich Observatories, where he served as Superintendent of the Department...

, the meteorologist, was a prolific English
England
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 mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

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He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

, where he was second wrangler in 1871. Influential in his time on teaching at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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, he is now remembered mostly for work in number theory
Number theory
Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...

 that anticipated later interest in the detailed properties of modular form
Modular form
In mathematics, a modular form is a analytic function on the upper half-plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition. The theory of modular forms therefore belongs to complex analysis but the main importance of the theory has traditionally been in its connections...

s. He published widely over other fields of mathematics.

He was the editor-in-chief of Messenger of Mathematics
Messenger of Mathematics
The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct mathematics journal.The editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929...

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