Trevor West

(Timothy) Trevor West (8 May 1938 – 30 October 2012)^[1] was an Irish academic and politician.^[2]

Biography

Educated at Midleton College, County Cork,^[3] and The High School, Dublin, he was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge University.^[4] He was a multiple Phd in mathematics and an associate professor of Mathematics at Trinity College. He was also the Junior Dean and a great supporter of sport at Trinity.^[5]

He was elected to Seanad Éireann on 19 November 1970 at a by-election for the University of Dublin constituency caused by the death of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington.^[2] After his election, he established a reputation as one of the few liberal voices in the Seanad.^[1] He was re-elected to the Seanad in 1973 and 1977. He lost his seat at the 1981 Seanad election but was re-elected at the 1982 election. He lost his seat again at the 1983 Seanad election.^[2]

He was the author of The Bold Collegians, a history of sport in Trinity College,^[5] and was an avid follower of Trinity College's sports programs. A book of essays, Trevor West : The Bold Collegian, recalling his life was launched in October 2016.^[6]

With John T. Lewis and D. McQuillan he drew up the constitution for the Irish Mathematical Society.^[7] An event was held in his memory at the Royal Irish Academy in December 2013 where a memorial issue of the Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy was presented.^[8]

Publications

• 1974. Locally compact semi-algebras : with applications to spectral theory of positive operators. With Rien Kaashoek. Amsterdam ; London : North-Holland Publishing Co.

References

External links

• Trevor West at the Mathematics Genealogy Project