Edward Burns Ross

Edward Burns Ross FRSE (28 September 1881 – 11 January 1947) was a 20th-century Scottish mathematician who served as a professor of mathematics at the Madras Christian College.

Following his father's death in 1887, his school teacher mother moved the family to Edinburgh in 1888.

He then continued with postgraduate studies, using a Ferguson Scholarship, in Mathematical Tripos (seventh wrangler, 1904) at the University of Cambridge, gaining a further MA in 1906.

His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Ellice Horsburgh, Cargill Gilston Knott and David Gibb.

[2] He retired due to ill-health in 1932 and went to live with his sisters at 41 Liberton Brae in south Edinburgh.