Eaton, John Carnegie, 1915-1972, mathematician

John Carnegie Eaton was educated at the University of Glasgow and graduated with an MA in 1937 with honours in mathematics and natural philosophy. He went on to serve as lecturer, 1950-1966, and later senior lecturer, 1966-1972, in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow (later the University of Strathclyde). He was a member of the Court and Senate of the University of Strathclyde and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He also played a leading part in the campaign to establish the University of Stirling.

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Created by Kimberly Sommerville, July 2011.

Obituaries in:
Glasgow Herald, 22 April 1972, p.7, c.8.
The Scotsman, 22 April 1972, p.5, c.3.

Johnston R. McKay, 'The MacLaurin Papers' in The College Courant, The Journal of the Glasgow University Graduates Association, Vol. 25, No. 50, 1973, pp. 30-34. Describes Eaton's unfinished research on Colin MacLaurin.