Brian Hughes Murdoch (3 April 1930 – 9 December 2020) was an Irish mathematician who served for 23 years as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
[1] Born in Worcestershire in England in 1930, Brian Hughes Murdoch grew up in Dublin.
He attended Trinity College Dublin, where he won a scholarship in mathematics in 1948.
In 1955, he got his PhD at Princeton under William Feller, for a thesis on “Preharmonic Functions”.
[3] After a couple of years teaching at Hull University in Kingston upon Hull and Queen's University Belfast, he returned to TCD, where he taught for another 35 years.