Mathematician:Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Mathematician
English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions.

Principally interested in numerical analysis.

Worked on celestial mechanics and the history of physics.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 24 October 1873 in Southport, Lancashire, England
 * Died: 24 March 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Publications

 * 1902:
 * 1910: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
 * 1915: (with )
 * 1920: (with )
 * 1924: The Calculus of Observations: a treatise on numerical mathematics
 * 1927: (with )