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G. N. Watson
English mathematician who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions (1886-1965) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 79
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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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.
