Clive William Kilmister (3 January 1924 – 2 May 2010) was a British mathematician who specialised in the mathematical foundations of physics, especially quantum mechanics and relativity.
Kilmister attended
Queen Mary College London for both his under- and postgraduate degrees. His 1950 PhD on The Use of Quaternions in Wave-Tensor Calculus related to
Arthur Eddington's work, and was supervised by cosmologist
George C. McVittie, who was one of Eddington's students.[1] His own students included Brian Tupper (1959,
King's College London, now professor emeritus of general relativity and cosmology at University of New Brunswick Fredericton
[1]),
Samuel Edgar (1977,
University of London), and Tony Crilly (reader in mathematical sciences at Middlesex University).[2]
Kilmister was elected as a member of the
London Mathematical Society during his doctoral studies (17 March 1949). Upon graduation, he began his career as an Assistant Lecturer in the Mathematics Department of King's College in 1950. The entirety of his academic career was spent at King's. In 1954, Kilmister founded the King's Gravitational Theory Group, in concert with
Hermann Bondi and
Felix Pirani, which focused on Einstein's theory of general relativity. At retirement, Kilmister was both a Professor of Mathematics and Head of the King's College Mathematics Department.[3]
Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory: A Key to the Universe (7 July 2005)[23]
The Origin of Discrete Particles (Series on Knots and Everything) (7 August 2009)[24]
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ab"Clive Kilmister Obituary". London Mathematical Society Newsletter. London Mathematical Society. 2010. p. Deaths. Archived from
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^"ANPA Home Page". Stanford University. 1997. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
^C. W. Kilmister and B. O. J. Tupper (1962). Eddington's Statistical Theory (Oxford Mathematical Monographs). Clarendon Press.
ASINB0006AYA6O.
^C. W. Kilmister (1964). Hamiltonian Dynamics. Wiley.
ASINB0006BLRXC.
^C. W. Kilmister (1965). The Environment in Modern Physics: A Study in Relativistic Mechanics. American Elsevier.
ASINB000V231Q2.
^C. W. Kilmister (1966). Men of Physics: Sir Arthur Eddington. Franklin Book Co.
ASINB000OGL5WM.
^J. E. Kilmister; C. W. Reeve (1966). Rational Mechanics. American Elsevier.
ISBN0-582-44717-8.
^C. W. Kilmister (1967). Language, Logic, and Mathematics. Barnes & Noble.
ASINB0006BQ1SI.
^D. M. Burley; J. S. Griffith; J. H. E. Cohn; P. C. Kendall; B. Fishel; H. Kestelman; C. W. Kilmister; N. J. Hardiman (1968). Exploring University Mathematics 2: Lectures Given at Bedford College. Pergamon Press.
ISBN0-08-203420-6.
^C. W. Kilmister (1971). Nature of the Universe (World of Schience). Thames & Hudson Ltd.
ISBN0-500-08008-9.
^C. W. Kilmister (1973). General Theory of Relativity (Selected Readings in Physics). Pergamon Press.
ISBN0-08-017639-9.
^E. Tocaci; Clive Kilmister; V. Vasilescu (1984). Relativistic Mechanics, Time and Inertia (Fundamental Theories of Physics). Springer.
ISBN90-277-1769-9.
^C. W. Kilmister (1986). Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation. Springer.
ISBN90-277-2300-1.
^C. W. Kilmister (1986). Russell (Philosophers in Context). Branch Line.
ISBN0-7108-1092-X.
^A. A. Sokolov; I. M. Ternov; Clive Kilmister (1986). Radiation from Relativistic Electrons (American Institute of Physics Translation Series). American Institute of Physics.
ISBN0-88318-507-5.
^G. Stevenson; Clive Kilmister (1987). Special Relativity for Physicists. Dover Publications.
ISBN0-486-65519-9.
^C. W. Kilmister (1989). Schrodinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN0-521-37929-6.
^C. W. Kilmister (1995). Lagrangian Dynamics: An Introduction for Students. Springer.
ISBN0-306-30368-X.
^C. W. Kilmister (2000). Special Theory of Relativity. Elsevier Science Ltd.
ISBN0-08-006995-9.
^C. W. Kilmister (2005). Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory: A Key to the Universe. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN0-521-01728-9.
^Clive Kilmister; Ted Bastin (2009). The Origin of Discrete Particles (Series on Knots and Everything). World Scientific Publishing.
ISBN978-981-4261-67-8.