Article ID: CBB881546934

‘A Man Who Has Infinite Capacity for Making Things Go’: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) (2019)

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Among the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was British mathematician and astronomer, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Born in Southport, in the north of England, Whittaker began his career at the University of Cambridge, before moving to Dunsink to become Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and finishing in Scotland as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Whittaker completed original work in a variety of fields, ranging from pure mathematics to mathematical physics and astronomy, as well as publishing on topics in philosophy, history, and theology. Whittaker is also noted as the first person to have opened a mathematical laboratory—with the focus on numerical analysis—in Great Britain. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of Whittaker's life, both as an academic and a person.

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Authors & Contributors
Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell
Moore, Donovan
Wilson, Robin J.
Weber, Anne-Gaëlle
Tournès, Dominique
Concepts
Biographies
Mathematicians
Astronomy
Mathematics
Women in science
Science and literature
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
England
Germany
Great Britain
London (England)
United States
Russia
Institutions
Harvard College Observatory
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