Eric Harold Neville

Eric Harold Neville, known as E. H. Neville, lived from 1 January 1889 to 22 August 1961 and was an English mathematician. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated as second wrangler and was elected to a fellowship there. In 1914 he travelled to India as a visiting lecturer and persuaded the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan to accompany him back to England, which began the collaboration between Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy. His expertise was mainly geometrical, and his books include The Fourth Dimension, Prolegomena to Analytical Geometry and Jacobian Elliptic Functions. Neville's algorithm for polynomial interpolation, which carries his name, is widely used. After leaving Cambridge he held the chair of mathematics at University College, Reading, where his work helped the institution win its university charter in 1926.