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G. N. Watson

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English mathematician who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions (1886-1965)

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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.

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1947De Morgan Medal
1946Sylvester Medal
1919Fellow of the Royal Society
1909Smith's Prize

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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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Lived 1886 to 1965 · aged 79
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