Roy. Soc. vol. 59. A volume containing his scientific and mathematical researches made during the years 1864–1877 was presented to the British Museum in 1897 by his widow. Like his father, Cockle became wealthy during his lifetime, leaving an estate of £32,169, which is approximately £2.7 million if adjusted for inflation as of 2008. Works Biodiversity Heritage Library has London-Dublin-Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, series 3 and 4, where articles by James Cockle were published: 1848: On Certain Functions Resembling Quaternions and on a New Imaginary in Algebra, 33:435–9. 1849: On a New Imaginary in Algebra 34:37–47. 1849: On the Symbols of Algebra and on the Theory of Tessarines 34:406–10. 1849: On Systems of Algebra involving more than one Imaginary, and on Equations of the Fifth Degree 35: 434 to 7 1850: On the True Amplitude of a Tessarine, on the Origin of the word Theodolite, and on Light under the action of Magnetism 36:290-2. 1850: On Impossible Equations, on Impossible Quantities and on Tessarines 37:281–3. 1851: On the Solution of Certain Systems of Equations series 4, 2: 289 to 93 1852: On Algebraic Transformation, on Quadruple Algebra and on the Theory of Equations, series 4, 3 : 436 to 39 1852: On the Method of Symmetric Products 4: 492 to 96 1853 Method of Symmetric Products, continued 5: 170 to 74 1853: Fragment on Multiple Values 6: 444 to 48 1854: On Method of Symmetric Products, concluded 7: 130 to 38 Cockle also wrote a series "Method of Vanishing Groups" for the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, volumes and pages 2: 267 to 73, 3: 179 to 81, and 4: 174 to 78. See also Judiciary of Australia List of judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland References External links John J. O'Connor & Edmund F. Robertson (2006) MacTutor Biography found on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Bright Sparcs biography from the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre. Robert de Boer (2009) Mathematical Biography of James Cockle from WebCite. J. M. Bennett (2003) Sir James Cockle, First Chief Justice of Queensland, Federation Press, . 1819 births 1895 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School 19th-century English mathematicians Chief Justices of Queensland Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Colony of Queensland judges 19th-century Australian judges