Henry Jack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Jack

Scottish mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1917

Place of Birth: Menzieshill, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1978

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Henry Jack FRSE (1917–1978) was a Scottish mathematician at University College Dundee.
The Jack polynomials are named after him.
His research dealt with the development of analytic methods to evaluate certain integrals over matrix spaces.
His most famous paper relates his integrals to classes of symmetric polynomials important in the theory of the representation of the symmetric group.
He discovered a new, natural basis for the symmetric polynomials.