George Pirie (mathematician)

George Pirie (19 July 1843 – 21 August 1904) was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical scientist, and Reverend in the Church of Scotland.

He was an expert in the field of dynamics and the approximation of π. Pirie was the son of Very Rev William Robinson Pirie and his wife, Margaret Chalmers Forbes, daughter of Very Rev Lewis William Forbes.

He then studied Mathematics and Physics (then called Natural Philosophy) at The University of Aberdeen under Prof David Thomson.

[2] He lectured at Cambridge from 1866 and in 1878 was offered the chair as Professor of Mathematics at Aberdeen University in replacement of Prof Frederick Fuller.

[10] He is buried next to his parents on the north side of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.