Thomas Muir: 'Lad O' Pairts'. The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist by Peter Elliott: Reviewed by Christian Krattenthaler.

Several pages are dedicated to the "private" Sir Thomas Muir, in particular his cultural interests, such as literature and music.[1] Furthermore, there are sections on Muir's family and children, with a family tree included. Muir dedicated himself particularly to identities for "compound determinants", that is, determinants of matrices whose entries are themselves determinants. The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844-1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist by Peter Elliott: Reviewed by Christian Krattenthaler. [Extracted from the article]

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