# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-t-whittaker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:33.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-t-whittaker"
name: "E. T. Whittaker"
slug: "e-t-whittaker"
description: "Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical analysis, including the theory of special functions, along with his contributions to astronomy, celestial mechanics, the history of physics, and digital signal processing."
tagline: "British mathematician (1873-1956)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1873-10-24"
deathDate: "1956-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             4.781249999999999
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump