R. W. H. T. Hudson

R. W. H. T. Hudson
Born	(1875-07-16)16 July 1875 Cambridge, England
Died	20 September 1904(1904-09-20) (aged 29) Snowdonia, Wales
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of London
Awards	Smith's Prize (1900)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Liverpool

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

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. He died in a mountaineering accident in 1904 at the age of 28, but his posthumously-published book Kummer's Quartic Surface allows mathematicians today access to his work.

He was the oldest of four children of W.H.H. Hudson, Professor of mathematics at King's College London. One of his sisters, Hilda Hudson was likewise a gifted mathematician, being a graduate of Newnham, a lecturer at the University of Berlin, and ultimately being awarded the O.B.E. in 1919.

Publications

• 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, MR1097176.