Could you perhaps suggest any ways in which I might be able to find
biographical details of Miss Hilda P. Hudson? I am writing a foreword
for a reissue of her 1927 CUP book "Cremona transformations", and I have
got curious to know her background. I would be grateful for any hints.
At present I can't find much about her. She signs the preface to her book
from London. She says that she was introduced to the subject of Cremona
transformations by Mr Arthur Berry. According to the bibliography of her
book, she published 9 articles on Cremona transformations between 1910 and
1913, and a further 5 between 1924 and 1927. Several of these are in Proc.
London Math Soc., and one of these may contain an affiliation or address.
If she has a connection with a Cambridge college, there may be some record
of her.
She was probably the sister of R.W.H.T. Hudson, the author of the 1904 CUP
book ``Kummer's quartic surface'', who died tragically in a mountaineering
accident, and she dedicates her book to him. That book contains a short
biography of its author, by H.F. Baker.
She seems to have been the only woman entrusted to give a communication to
the 1912 Cambridge World Congress of Mathematicians, and seems to be listed
in the participants as accompanying Prof W.H.H. Hudson of Croydon.
Many thanks, on behalf of Miles Reid,
David Fowler