Edward Routh
Edward John Routh FRS , was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory.
Routh was born of an English father and a FrenchCanadian mother in Quebec, at that time the British colony of Lower Canada. His fathers family could trace its history back to the Norman conquest when it acquired land at Routh near Beverley, Yorkshire. His mothers family, the Taschereau family, was wellestablished in Quebec, tracing their ancestry back to the early days of the French colony. His parents were Sir Randolph Isham Routh and his second wife, Marie Louise Taschereau . Randolph was a commissariat officer who had served at the Battle of Waterloo, and Marie Louise was the daughter of judge JeanThomas Taschereau and the sister of judge JeanThomas and cardinal ElzarAlexandre Taschereau.
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