Henry John Stephen Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry John Stephen Smith

mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1826

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1883

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Prof Henry John Stephen Smith FRS FRSE FRAS LLD (2 November 1826 – 9 February 1883) was a mathematician and amateur astronomer remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory.
In matrix theory he is visible today in having his name on the Smith normal form of a matrix.
Smith was also first to discover the Cantor set.