Thomas Muir: Lad O'Pairts - Elliott, Peter

The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (18441934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist. Thomas Muir (18441934) was both a renowned mathematician and a colonial educationist. As mathematician he is known particularly for his monumental five volumes, The Theory of Determinants, written when this concept was mainstream. As Superintendent-General of Education of the Cape Colony (18921915), he demonstrated extraordinary powers of industry and had a profound influence on the course of education in the Colony, he introduced wide-ranging reforms and the school buildings constructed throughout the Cape remain a permanent legacy of his era. He was one of a new breed of British colonialists, an efficient bureaucrat and educational planner.

Softcover. English. Cantaloup Press. 2021. ISBN: 9798578389238. 238 pp with 74 photographs. NEW. Book No: 2504035