Editing Harry Bateman (section)

==Biography==
Bateman was born in [[Manchester]], England, on 29 May 1882. He first gained an interest in mathematics during his time at [[Manchester Grammar School]]. In his final year, he won a scholarship to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. Bateman studied with coach [[Robert Alfred Herman]] to prepare for the [[Cambridge Mathematical Tripos]]. He distinguished himself in 1903 as [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Senior Wrangler]] (tied with P.E. Marrack) and by winning the [[Smith's Prize]] (1905).<ref name="acad" />

His first paper, "The determination of curves satisfying given conditions", was published when he was still an undergraduate student.<ref name="PCPS_1903" /> He studied in Göttingen and Paris, and taught at the University of Liverpool and University of Manchester. After moving to the US in 1910, he taught at [[Bryn Mawr College]] and then [[Johns Hopkins University]]. There, working with [[Frank Morley]] in geometry, he achieved his Ph.D., prior to which he had already published more than 60 papers, including some of his celebrated papers. In 1917, he took up his permanent position at the [[California Institute of Technology]], which was then known as the "Throop Polytechnic Institute".

[[Eric Temple Bell]] says, "Like his contemporaries and immediate predecessors among Cambridge mathematicians of the first decade of this century [1901–1910]... Bateman was thoroughly trained in both [[mathematical analysis|pure analysis]] and [[mathematical physics]], and retained an equal interest in both throughout his scientific career."<ref name="Bell_1946" />

[[Theodore von Kármán]] was called in as an advisor for a projected aeronautics laboratory at Caltech and later gave this appraisal of Bateman:<ref name="Kármán_1967" />
{{blockquote|In 1926 Cal Tech{{sic}} had only a minor interest in [[aeronautics]]. The professorship that came nearest to aeronautics was occupied by a shy, meticulous Englishman, Dr. Harry Bateman. He was an applied mathematician from Cambridge who worked in the field of [[fluid mechanics]]. He seemed to know everything but did nothing important. I liked him.}}

Harry Bateman married Ethel Horner in 1912 and had a son named Harry Graham, who died as a child. Later, the couple adopted a daughter named Joan Margaret. He died on his way to New York in 1946 of [[coronary thrombosis]].