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E. T. Whittaker

1873 - 1956

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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical analysis, including the theory of special functions, along with his contributions to astronomy, celestial mechanics, the history of physics, and digital signal processing. Among the most influential publications in Whittaker's bibliography, he authored several popular reference works in mathematics, physics, and the history of science, including A Course of Modern Analysis (better known as Whittaker and Watson), Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, and A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. T. Whittaker has received more than 215,945 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). E. T. Whittaker is the 676th most popular mathematician (up from 717th in 2019), the 3,156th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,660th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, E. T. Whittaker ranks 676 out of 1,004. Before him are Tommaso Ceva, Sofya Yanovskaya, Max Newman, Ian Stewart, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, and John Cairncross. After him are Henry Dudeney, Vladimir Drinfeld, Alfréd Rényi, Georges de Rham, Bernt Michael Holmboe, and Otto Toeplitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, E. T. Whittaker ranks 138. Before him are Hamida Javanshir, Carl Vaugoin, Charles P. Dixon, Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Nikolay Bauman, and Jan Janský. After him are Oscar von Sydow, Al Smith, W. C. Handy, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Rudolf Tobias, and Leo Slezak. Among people deceased in 1956, E. T. Whittaker ranks 141. Before him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Touria Chaoui, George Bancroft, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Sergei Vasilenko, and Jan Šrámek. After him are Benjamin Glazer, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, David Seymour, Albert Kluyver, Flora Sandes, and Preston Tucker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. T. Whittaker ranks 3,156 out of 8,785. Before him are Cilla Black (1943), Mark Hughes (1963), Lawrence Oates (1880), John Sims (1749), Francis Godwin (1562), and John Cairncross (1913). After him are Henry Dudeney (1857), Roy Harper (1941), Una Stubbs (1937), James Milner (1986), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), and Michael Ball (1962).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, E. T. Whittaker ranks 69. Before him are David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), Ian Stewart (1945), and John Cairncross (1913). After him are Henry Dudeney (1857), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), James Ivory (1765), David Cox (1924), and William Hopkins (1793).

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