The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Norman Macleod Ferrers

• Mac Tutor [Saint Andrews University] Biographical sketch also includes a discussion of Ferrers diagrams used in combinatorics, which Ferrers discovered but failed to publish out of modesty.

• WORKS:
• Solutions of the Cambridge Senate-House Problems for Four Years: --- 1848-51 by Norman M. Ferrers and J. Stuart Jackson [Cambridge: Macmillan, 1851]
• An Elementary Treatise on Trilinear Co-ordinates, the Method of Reciprocal Polars, and the Theory of Projections by Rev. Norman M. Ferrers [Cambridge: Macmillan, 1866]
• Note on Professor Sylvester's Representation of the Motion of a Free Rigid Body by That of a Material Ellipsoid Rolling on a Rough Plane by Rev. Norman M. Ferrers [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 160, 1 (1870)]
• An Elementary Treatise on Spherical Harmonics and Subjects Connected with Them by Rev. Norman M. Ferrers [London: Macmillan, 1877]

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