Chrystal, George

Education

Professor of Mathematics 10.11.1877 - August 1879 (resigned). Exact date not in Anderson or Minutes.

Birth/childhood

Born 8.3.1851 son of William Chrystal, grain merchant and farmer, Bourtie and Margaret Burr.

Career

Educated at Aberdeen [Aberdeen University]- M.A. 1871 and Cambridge Universities [Cambridge University]- B.A. 1875.

Professor of Mathematics 10.11.1877 - August 1879 (resigned). Exact date not in Anderson or Minutes. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Professor of Mathematics Edinburgh University 1879 - 3.11.1911 (died at Edinburgh).

LL.D. Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities [Aberdeen University, Glasgow University].

Publications

Algebra: an elementary text-book for the higher classes of secondary schools and for colleges. Pt. 1. 5th ed. (London: Adam & Charles Black,1904)

Death

[Died at Edinburgh 3.11.1911.]

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