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Jeans biography Sir James Hopwood Jeans Born: 11 September 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England Died: 16 September 1946 in Dorking, Surrey, England Click the picture above to see four larger pictures James Jeans' father was William Tullock Jeans. William Jeans was a parliamentary journalist of Scottish descent who wrote two books on the lives of scientists. The name Hopgood was James mother's maiden name; she came from the north of England. It was a very religious Christian family with James the eldest of the three children and the only boy. James' family moved to Brighton when he was eighteen months old then, when he was three years old, they moved to London.

Jeans was educated in Merchant Taylor's School in London which he entered in 1890. The first topic which interested him was classics but soon his interests turned towards mathematics. An excellent mathematics teacher at the school encouraged Jeans' interest in the subject but from the time he was a young child he had shown a fascination with numbers. Several stories about his remarkable abilities as a child indicate both an interest and curiosity about numbers and an outstanding memory. Relates in [] that:- His interest in numbers was early and deep-seated: he not only factorised cab-numbers, but retained in his memory the numbers that he encountered. At the age of seven he found his father's book of logarithms, tried to discover what they were for but failed, and learnt the first twenty or so seven-figure logs by heart, and remembered them until near the end of his life.

Jeans went to Trinity College Cambridge in October 1896 having won a mathematical scholarship. There he was a fellow student with who was in the same year. He was taught as an undergraduate at Cambridge by,,, R A Herman and. He was Second in the Mathematical Tripos examinations of 1898 (ranked seconf in the list of First Class students) and was awarded a First Class degree in the Mathematical Tripos of 1900. Although he would not return again to pure mathematics, Jeans wrote a paper on the theory of numbers while an undergraduate. Both Jeans and were awarded a Smith's prize with 'unspecified relative merit'. Jeans was awarded an Isaac Studentship in astronomy and optics, then in 1901 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity.