{{Short description|Irish mathematician}} {{About|the Irish mathematician who lived from 1839 to 1920|the English mathematician who lived from 1852 to 1927 |William Burnside}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = William S. Burnside | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date ={{birth date|1839|12|20|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date ={{death date and age|1920|03|11|1839|12|20|df=y}} | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = Mathematics | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = Trinity College Dublin | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''William Snow Burnside''' (20 December 1839 – 11 March 1920) was an Irish mathematician whose entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He is chiefly remembered for the book ''The Theory of Equations: With an Introduction to the Theory of Binary Algebraic Forms'' (1881)<ref>co-authored with Arthur William Panton</ref> and his long tenure as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at TCD. He is sometimes confused with his rough contemporary, the English mathematician William Burnside.<ref>William Snow Burnside Obituary, Irish Times, 13 March 1920</ref>
William Snow Burnside was born at Corcreevy House, near Fivemiletown, Tyrone, to William Smyth Burnside (1810–1884, Chancellor of Clogher Cathedral) and Anne Henderson (1808–1881).<ref>[https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees2/burnside.php Burnside Family Genealogy] Library Ireland</ref> He studied mathematics under George Salmon at TCD (BA 1861, MA 1866, Fellowship 1871), and taught there until his retirement in 1917. He served as Erasmus Smiths's Professor of Mathematics for many decades (1879–1913), and co-authored the influential 1881 book ''The Theory of Equations: With an Introduction to the Theory of Binary Algebraic Forms'' with his TCD colleague Arthur William Panton (1843–1906). It ran to at least 7 editions, and was reissued by Dover Books in 1960. TCD awarded him a DSc in 1891. He lived one and a half miles away from campus, on Raglan Road, and was allegedly "the last man to regularly arrive in College on horseback".<ref name=papers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MOO2rEEBMaEC&dq=%22william+snow+burnside%22&pg=PA16 The Collected Papers of William Burnside: Commentary on Burnside's life] by William Burnside</ref>
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