Henry Forder
Born in Shotesham All Saints, near Norwich, he won a scholarships first to a Grammar school and then to University of Cambridge.The object achieved is a "continuous and rigorous development of the [Euclidean] doctrine in the light of modern investigations."[1] In 1929 Forder obtained drawings and notes of Robert William Genese on the exterior algebra of Grassmann.When The Calculus of Extension appeared in 1941 it was reviewed by Homer V. Craig: "The theorem density is exceptionally high and consequently despite the superior exposition it is not an easy book to work straight through – perhaps the key chapters suffer from a lack of recapitulation... [It] provides the best exposition of the fundamental processes of the Ausdehnungslehre and the most inclusive treatment of the geometrical applications available at present."[2] Henry Forder was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1947 and received an honorary DSc from the University of Auckland in 1959.