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{{short description|British-American mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Harry Bateman
| image             = Harry Bateman sketch 1931.png
| caption           = 1931 drawing of Harry Bateman
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1882|05|29}}
| birth_place       = [[Manchester, England|Manchester]], England
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1946|01|21|1882|05|29}}
| death_place       = Milford, Utah, USA
| fields            = [[Geometrical optics]]<br>[[Partial differential equation]]s<br>[[Fluid dynamics]]<br>[[Electromagnetism]]
| workplaces        = [[Bryn Mawr College]]<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology]]
| education         = {{nowrap|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA]])<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[PhD]])}}
| thesis_title      = The Quartic Curve and {{nowrap|Its Inscribed Configurations}}
| thesis_url        = https://www.jstor.org/stable/2370369
| thesis_year       = 1913
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Frank Morley]]
| doctoral_students = [[Clifford Truesdell]]<br>[[Howard P. Robertson]]<br>[[Albert George Wilson]]
| known_for         = [[Bateman Manuscript Project]]<br>[[Burgers' equation|Bateman–Burgers equation]]<br>[[Bateman equation]]<br>[[Bateman function]]<br>[[Bateman polynomials]]<br>[[Bateman transform]]
| awards            = [[Senior Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Senior Wrangler]] (1903)<br>[[Smith's Prize]] (1905)<br>[[Gibbs Lecture]] (1943)
}}

'''Harry Bateman''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name="Erdélyi_1947" /> (29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946) was an English [[mathematician]] with a specialty in [[differential equation]]s of [[mathematical physics]].<ref name="Erdélyi_1946" /><ref name="Murnaghan_1948" /> With [[Ebenezer Cunningham]], he expanded the views of spacetime symmetry of Lorentz and Poincare to a more expansive [[conformal group of spacetime]] leaving [[Maxwell's equations]] invariant. Moving to the US, he obtained a Ph.D. in geometry with [[Frank Morley]] and became a professor of mathematics at [[California Institute of Technology]]. There he taught [[fluid dynamics]] to students going into [[aerodynamics]] with [[Theodore von Karman]]. Bateman made a broad survey of applied differential equations in his [[Gibbs Lecture]] in 1943 titled, "The control of an elastic fluid".