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A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
FunderNetherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Duration01 Jun 2021 - 01 Sep 2021
Project code36.201.022
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Almost forgotten today, Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859) was lauded by his contemporaries as a "prodigy of universal genius". Having been privately educated at Bath, reading Xenophon and solving equations from the age of 10, Ellis went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, where he became a pupil of George Peacock and William Hopkins. A great academic career beckoned; he helped found the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, graduated Senior Wrangler in 1840, and was elected Fellow of Trinity College shortly afterwards. During the 1840s, Ellis published major papers on pure mathematics and took on the co-editing of the monumental Collected Works of Francis Bacon. From 1847, Ellis’s health deteriorated and in 1849, aged 32, he returned home from a ground tour as an invalid. The rest of his days were spent in Trumpington, near Cambridge, where he dictated his thoughts on subjects ranging from etymology and bees’ cells to Roman Law and a projected Chinese dictionary. This edited volume captures for the first time both the tragic life and fascinating work of Ellis, placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life. Both a human-interest story about a genius-to-be and a basic resource for historians of science, mathematics and philosophy alike, the book brings together the world’s foremost experts on Ellis. Drawing on his published oeuvre and making available a vast amount of hitherto unexplored manuscripts, the book provides a rich picture of the many facts of Ellis’s life in a scholarly but accessible way.
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Almost forgotten today, Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859) was lauded by his contemporaries as a "prodigy of universal genius". Having been privately educated at Bath, reading Xenophon and solving equations from the age of 10, Ellis went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, where he became a pupil of George Peacock and William Hopkins. A great academic career beckoned; he helped found the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, graduated Senior Wrangler in 1840, and was elected Fellow of Trinity College shortly afterwards. During the 1840s, Ellis published major papers on pure mathematics and took on the co-editing of the monumental Collected Works of Francis Bacon. From 1847, Ellis’s health deteriorated and in 1849, aged 32, he returned home from a ground tour as an invalid. The rest of his days were spent in Trumpington, near Cambridge, where he dictated his thoughts on subjects ranging from etymology and bees’ cells to Roman Law and a projected Chinese dictionary. This edited volume captures for the first time both the tragic life and fascinating work of Ellis, placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life. Both a human-interest story about a genius-to-be and a basic resource for historians of science, mathematics and philosophy alike, the book brings together the world’s foremost experts on Ellis. Drawing on his published oeuvre and making available a vast amount of hitherto unexplored manuscripts, the book provides a rich picture of the many facts of Ellis’s life in a scholarly but accessible way.
