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CHERRY, Thomas MacFarland

Born Melbourne 21 May 1898; died Melbourne 21 November 1966. Education Melbourne University (B.A. 1918) and Cambridge University (B.A. 1922, Ph.D. 1924, Sc.D. 1950). Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1924-28. Professor of mathematics, Melbourne University, 1929-52; professor of applied mathematics 1952-63. F.R.S. 1954. F.A.A. 1954; President of the Australian Academy of Science 1961-65. K.B. 1965.
  1. On the form of the solution of the equations of dynamics. Cambridge Philosophical Society. Transactions., 23 (1923-28; 1924), 43-70.
  2. On Poincar#ae's theorem of `the non-existence of uniform integrals of dynamical equations'. Cambridge Philosophical Society. Proceedings., 22 (1923-25), 287-294.
  3. Note on the employment of angular variables in celestial mechanics. Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices., 84 (1924), 729-731.
  4. Some examples of trajectories defined by differential equations of a generalised dynamical type. Cambridge Philosophical Society. Transactions., 24 (1923-28; 1925), 169-200.
  5. Newton's Principia in 1687 and 1937: A lecture. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1937. 28pp.
  6. (Abstract) The problem of stability in dynamical systems. Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the Meeting., 24 (Canberra, 1939), 27-28.
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