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Joseph Wolstenholme

Joseph Wolstenholme was an English mathematician, born: September 30, 1829, Eccles[?] near Manchester, England, died: November 18, 1891.

He was a close friend of Leslie Stephens[?] from his undergraduate studies at Cambridge and Virginia Woolf used his personality for Augustus Carmichael in her novel To the Lighthouse[?] (The Lighthouse[?]) from 1927. Wolstenholme was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill[?], Egham[?] near London from 1871 to 1889. He wrote Mathematical problems.

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