Prof Henry John Stephen Smith FRS FRSE FRAS LLD (2 November 1826 – 9 February 1883) was a British mathematician and amateur astronomer remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. In matrix theory he is visible today in having his name on the Smith normal form of a matrix. Smith was also first to discover the Cantor set.
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2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland
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9 February 1883 (aged 56) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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