Mathematician:Wilfrid Norman Bailey

Mathematician

British mathematician who worked on the theory of basic hypergeometric series.

Credited with the creation of The Domino Swastika puzzle.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 5 September 1893 in Consett, Durham
• Died: 23 October 1961, Eastbourne

Theorems and Definitions

• Bailey's Lemma

• Bailey Chain
• Bailey Pair
• Bailey Transform

Results named for Wilfrid Norman Bailey can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Wilfrid Norman Bailey can be found here.

Publications

• 1928: Products of generalized Hypergeometric Series (Proc. London Math. Soc. Ser. 2 Vol. 28: pp. 242 – 254)

• 1935: Generalized Hypergeometric Series