George Salmon

George Salmon (September 25, 1819 - January 22, 1904) was an Irish mathematician and theologian[1].

Salmon was an algebraic geometer and discovered, with Cayley, the 27 lines on the cubic surface. He worked at Trinity College Dublin, was a contemporary of Hamilton and MacCullage, he was also provost of the College and achieve long term notoriety through his strong opposition to women students.

After 1874 he had reached a point where he felt he likely had little to add to math. From here on most of his writing concerns theology. These concerned the nature of the Church of Ireland, eternal punishment, and whether miracles existed. He eventually became chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Salmon was born in Cork, Ireland.

Biography from the St Andrew's mathematical biography site. Template:Mathbiostub