Harold Stanley Ruse
Harold Stanley Ruse was an English mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces.Life
He was born in Hastings on the south English coast, the son of Frederick Ruse.
He was educated at Hastings Grammar School and then studied Mathematics at Jesus College, Oxford, graduating MA. In 1927 he went in to the University of Edinburgh as a Bruce of Grangehill research scholar. From 1928 to 1937 he was a lecturer in mathematics at the same university, spending session 1933–34 as a Rockefeller Research Fellow at Princeton University; he visited Princeton again in 1952–53.
Ruse was a professor of mathematics from 1937 to 1946 at University College, Southampton and from 1946 to 1970 at the University of Leeds, where he retired as professor emeritus. At the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, he was a member from 1927, the Society's secretary from 1930 to 1933, and president for the one year session 1935–1936. At the London Mathematical Society, he was a member from 1929, a member of the Society's Council from 1938 to 1945, and vice-president for the one year session 1942–1943.
In 1931 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir Charles Galton Darwin, Edward Thomas Copson and Charles Glover Barkla.
The RSE awarded him the Keith Medal for an outstanding scientific paper published during 1935–1937 in the RSE's scientific journals. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1936 in Oslo.
He was unmarried and had no children.
