R. W. H. T. Hudson

Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.^[1]

Hudson was born into a family of mathematical talents.^[2] He was the oldest of four children of William Henry Hoar Hudson, Professor of Mathematics at King's College London,^[1] and his mother read mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge.^[3] Both of his sisters became mathematicians.^[4]

Hudson read mathematics in St John's College, Cambridge, beginning in 1895, and became senior wrangler in 1898. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of St John's. He moved to University College, Liverpool as a lecturer in 1902, and defended a doctorate (D.Sc.) at the University of London in 1903.

In 1904, Hudson died in a mountaineering accident in Snowdonia at the age of 28.^[1]

In 1905, his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface has gone on to become one of the most foundational texts in geometry.^[5]

• Hudson, R. W. H. T. (1905), Kummer's Quartic Surface, Cambridge University Press. Reprinted as part of the Cambridge Mathematics Library with an added foreword by R. Barth, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39790-1, MR 1097176.