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

Theorems and Definitions

• Whittaker Function
• Whittaker's Equation
• Whittaker Model
• Whittaker Functional

Publications

• 1902: A Course of Modern Analysis
  • 1915: A Course of Modern Analysis, 2nd ed. (with G.N. Watson)
  • 1920: A Course of Modern Analysis, 3rd ed. (with G.N. Watson)
  • 1927: A Course of Modern Analysis, 4th ed. (with G.N. Watson)

• 1910: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
• 1924: The Calculus of Observations: a treatise on numerical mathematics

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edmund Taylor Whittaker": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor (1873-1956)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor (1873-1956)