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Categories: Irish astronomers, Historians of Physics, English Roman Catholics, Presidents of the London Mathematical Society, Directors of the Dunsink Observatory
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E. T. Whittaker  E.T. Whittaker  E T Whittaker  Edmund T. Whittaker  Edmund Taylor Whittaker
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Wikipedia
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Wikipedia
British mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics, the theory of special functions, and the history of physics. Wikidata
IS A
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
doctor's degree
ARCHIVES AT
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
AWARD RECEIVED
De Morgan Medal
Sylvester Medal
Smith's Prize
Copley Medal
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
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CHILD
John Macnaghten Whittaker
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Andrew Forsyth
George Darwin
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Eddington
G. N. Watson
Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Alexander Aitken
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EDUCATED AT
Cambridge University
Trinity College, Cambridge
Manchester Grammar School
FAMILY NAME
Whittaker
FIELD OF WORK
mathematics
GIVEN NAME
Edmund
HONORIFIC PREFIX
Sir
HONORIFIC SUFFIX
Doctor of Science
Legum Doctor
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Accademia dei Lincei
Royal Society of Edinburgh
NOTABLE WORK
Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula
Whittaker model
A Course of Modern Analysis
Whittaker function
OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
philosopher
physicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Southport
PLACE OF DEATH
Edinburgh
PROFESSORSHIP
chair
RELATIVE
Edward Copson
RELIGION
Catholicism
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
G. N. Watson
Pierre Humbert
Alexander Aitken
G. H. Hardy
STUDENT OF
Andrew Forsyth
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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E. T. Whittaker
Wikidata
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E. T. Whittaker
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E. t. whittaker, E.T. Whittaker, E T Whittaker, Edmund T. Whittaker, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE, Edmund Whittaker, ET Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir Edmund Whittaker
Wikidata Alias
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Edmund T. Whittaker, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Edmund Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE LL.D. Sc.D., Sir Edmund Whittaker

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