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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science.
Edmund Taylor Whittaker (Southport, Lancashire, 24 de outubro de 1873 — Edimburgo, 24 de março de 1956) foi um matemático, físico e historiador da ciência britânico.
24 de out. de 2014 · Summary. Edmund Whittaker's best known work is in analysis, in particular numerical analysis, but he also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of applied mathematics and physics. View eight larger pictures.
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (born October 24, 1873, Southport, Lancashire, England—died March 24, 1956, Edinburgh, Scotland) was an English mathematician who made pioneering contributions to the area of special functions, which is of particular interest in mathematical physics.
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker 301 Council in 1911-12 and 1933-35, was awarded the Sylvester Medal in 1931 and the Copley Medal in 1954. With the Royal Society of Edinburgh he had continuous contact, being Gunning Prizeman in 1929 and President 1939- 1944.
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, historian of science, and philosopher who authored three titles that remain in circulation over a century after their initial publications.
7 de nov. de 2013 · In this paper, we follow the book as it develops from a report that Whittaker wrote for the British Society for the Advancement of Science to its influence on Dirac’s version of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and beyond.
