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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. Whittaker was...
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    hypergeometric function of the second kind. Whittaker functions (for Edmund Taylor Whittaker) are solutions to Whittaker's equation. Coulomb wave functions are...
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  • consideration of the physical circumstances causing it (see, e.g., Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1988). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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    Scaling (geometry) Transformation matrix Translational symmetry Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1988). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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    Text. Cambridge University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-521-82678-5. Edmund Taylor Whittaker; William McCrea (1988). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of...
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  • Physics. Vol. 1 (12 ed.). Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-321-50125-7. Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1904). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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  • Christie) Whittaker function, integral, model – Edmund Taylor Whittaker Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula – Edmund Taylor Whittaker, John Macnaghten...
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    France. He studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh under Edmund Taylor Whittaker, graduating with an MA and BSc. He then went on to study at the...
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    changes and additional experiments according to the descriptions of Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1910) and Jakob Laub (1910): The experiment of François Arago...
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  • Velocity Integral kinematics Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach criterion Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1904). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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  • denoting concepts such as the cosmos or the philosophical world. Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1904). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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    Kinetics and Statics: with applications. E. and F. N. Spon. p. 85. Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1904). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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    A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (category Books by E. T. Whittaker)
    Electricity is any of three books written by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE on the history of electromagnetic theory, covering the...
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    Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Ralph Allan Sampson, Charles Glover Barkla, and Sir Charles Galton...
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  • The prime " ′ " denotes a derivative in Lagrange's notation. Edmund Taylor Whittaker; George Neville Watson (1927). A Course of Modern Analysis: an...
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    functions (colloquially known as Whittaker and Watson) is a landmark textbook on mathematical analysis written by Edmund T. Whittaker and George N. Watson, first...
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    The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 22 November 2021. "Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956)". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 May 2022...
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  • Association for the Advancement of Science from the year before, Edmund Taylor Whittaker submitted his Report on the Progress of Solution to the Problem...
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  • Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, under Prof Edmund Taylor Whittaker graduating around 1914. He then did postgraduate studies at the...
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    academic at Cardiff University, a specialist in complex analysis Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) also went on to study at Trinity settling at Edinburgh...
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  • Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Harold Stanley Ruse, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, David Gibb and William Edge. He won the Society's Keith Medal...
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    Robertson, Edmund F., "Sylvester Medal", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sylvester...
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  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Ralph Allan Sampson, Thomas James Jehu and James Ritchie. In 1930...
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  • (like Hendrik Lorentz, Oliver Lodge, Albert Abraham Michelson, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Harry Bateman, Ebenezer Cunningham, Charles Émile Picard, Paul...
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    (Lord Salvesen), William Archer Tait, Robert Blyth Greig and Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. He resigned from the Society in 1931. When the Labour government...
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  • Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-86840-425-7. Retrieved 21 April 2018. Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1904). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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    Adam (39) Very Rev John Inglis (43) Hugh Cameron RSA RSW (45) Edmund Taylor Whittaker (48) George Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans and his son John (49)...
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  • the complete theta functions these definitions introduced by Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker and George Neville Watson are valid: ϑ 00 ( v ; w ) = ∏ n = 1 ∞...
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  • (1864–1954) Robert John Strutt 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875–1947) Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) Ludimar Hermann (1838–1914) Hendrik Antoon Lorentz...
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    Astronomy, Royal Astronomer of Ireland Died in office 1906–1912 Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker Andrews Professor of Astronomy, Royal Astronomer of Ireland In...
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