E. T. Whittaker
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science.
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The 1913 Colloquium for the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Whittaker is featured sitting at the far left end of the front row.
Front cover of the Whittaker Memorial Volume published in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in June 1958. The Proceedings is a delayed open-access journal, where the contents are free to read one year after publication.Awards 10
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About this person
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.
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Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1873 to 1956 · aged 82
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