Homersham Cox

Homersham Cox (1857–1918) was an English mathematician. Life He was the son of Homersham Cox (1821–1897) and brother of Harold Cox and was educated at Tonbridge School (1870–75). At Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. as 4th wrangler in 1880, and MA in 1883. He became a fellow in 1881. His younger sister Margaret, described him as a man often completely lost in his thoughts. He was married to Amy Cox. Later they separated and she started working as a governess in Russia in 1907. Cox wrote four papers applying algebra to physics, and then turned to mathematics education with a book on arithmetic in 1885. His Principles of Arithmetic included binary numbers, prime numbers, and permutations.