# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-n-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:26.420Z

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name: "G. N. Watson"
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description: "George Neville Watson  was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. His collaboration on the 1915 second edition of E. T. Whittaker's A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) produced the classic \"Whittaker and Watson\" text. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals."
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birthDate: "1886-01-31"
deathDate: "1965-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump