Malta's precious Mathematician

Hello Friends, so I chose Malta above all the European countries. And to start, let me give a short introduction about my country.

Malta is a small, island nation in the Mediterranean that is a cultural and geographical stepping-stone between Europe and the countries of North Africa. The capital is Valletta.

The islands of Malta are attractive, somewhat hilly and loaded with beaches, bays and coastlines that invite exploration, but you often have to work to discover their treasures.

Malta is relatively dry and rain falls mainly in the winter. The islands moderate climate attracts visitors in all seasons, but spring and fall are most popular with tourists.

Malta is internationally renowned as a tourist destination, with numerous recreational areas and historical monuments, including nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites, most prominently the Megalithic Temples which are some of the oldest free-standing structures in the world.

Malta's flag and location.

Skyline in Valletta.

& some beautiful places:

And here comes the mathematical part:

The mathematician I chose is Percy Alexander MacMahon.

He was born on 26th September 1854 at Sliema, Malta and died on 25th December 1959 in Bognor Regis, England.  He is a famous mathematician, and he is specially noted in connections with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. He also has an military career which started when he was 19 years old. At the beginning he was posted to Madras, India.  But in 1898 he retired from military and he returned to England, and that’s when his mathematical career started.

We know that he received the Royal society’s Royal medal in 1900, the Sylvester medal in 1919 and the Morgan Medal by the London mathematical society in 1923. He was also the president of London Mathematical society from 1894 to 1896.

MacMahon is best known for symmetric function and enumeration of plane partitions.

His 2 volume combinatory analysis was published in 1915/1916 and his theorem, is called McMahon’s Master theorem. It is a result in enumerative combinatorics and linear algebra.

And here is his signature:

Alexander Percy MacMahon