Albert Eagle
Albert Eagle was an English mathematician who wrote several books giving his forcefully expressed and somewhat eccentric views on science and mathematics. He was an assistant to J. J. Thomson, and was later a lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester. His best-known book is on elliptic functions, where he uses his idiosyncratic mathematical notation, such as τ instead of π/2, and !n for n factorial. In his other writings he dismissed special relativity, quantum mechanics, natural selection, and English spelling as absurdities.Publications
