Andrew Young (mathematician)

Andrew White Young FRSE WS (10 October 1891 – 20 July 1968) was a Scottish mathematician, natural scientist, and lawyer.

He conducted research on Temperature Seiches in Loch Earn and presented papers on Mathieu function and Lagrange polynomials.

[5] Of particular importance was the research he conducted with Ernest M. Wedderburn on Temperature Seiches in Loch Earn, which was published in several parts in the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

[6] In 1919, Young joined the company of Messrs S. M. Bulley & Son, Cotton Merchants in Liverpool and represented them in Bremen, Germany until 1926.

He was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh on 1 March 1937, his proposers being Charles H. O'Donoghue, Alexander C. Aitken, Ernest Wedderburn and Edmund T. Whittaker.