BHM 2919.
47mm. Bronze. By J. Moore.
Obverse with bare head of Augustus De Morgan, reverse with two concentric circles joined by curved lines in the centre, tablet below and legend around. Edge engraved 'Henry Frederick Baker. 1902-1905'.
About Uncirculated and housed in fitted case of issue. Very rare.
The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society. It is awarded every three years, usually to a mathematician living and working in the United Kingdom.
Henry Frederick Baker FRS FRSE (3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956) was a British mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. Baker was elected Fellow of St John's in 1888 where he remained for 68 years.
In June 1898, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1911, he gave the presidential address to the London Mathematical Society.