Richard Townsend (mathematician)
Richard Townsend was an Irish mathematician, author, and academic.Life and career
Townsend was born in Baltimore, County Cork and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy there in 1870 and altogether spent four decades on the staff at TCD. His book on geometry was highly regarded. He wrote many articles for the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal.Books
- Chapters on the Modern Geometry of the Point, Line, and Circle
