Edmund Taylor Whittaker

@article{Mccrea1957EdmundTW,
  title={Edmund Taylor Whittaker},
  author={W. H. Mccrea},
  journal={Journal of The London Mathematical Society-second Series},
  year={1957},
  pages={234-256}
}
  • W. Mccrea
  • Published 1 April 1957
  • Mathematics
  • Journal of The London Mathematical Society-second Series
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Computation and Applications of Mathieu Functions: A Historical Perspective
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This paper surveys and recapitulates the historical development of the theory and methods of computation for Mathieu functions and modified Mathieu function and identifies some gaps in current software capability, particularly to do with double eigenvalues of the Mathieu equation.
‘A man who has infinite capacity for making things go’: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956)
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…
Whittaker’s analytical dynamics: a biography
Originally published in 1904, Whittaker’s A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies soon became a classic of the subject and has remained in print for most of these 108…
A lost chapter in the pre-history of algebraic analysis: Whittaker on contact transformations
In the early 1930s W. O. Kermack and W. H. McCrea published three papers in which they attempted to prove a result of E. T. Whittaker on the solution of differential equations. In modern parlance,…
England and Probability in the Inter-War Years
England and statistical theory in the inter-war period is a subject that abounds with material but England and probability theory may seem empty. This may seem a paradoxical situation. This paper…
Hertzian electromagnetic potentials
  • W. Mccrea
  • Geology
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  • 1957
The general properties of the Hertzian electromagnetic potentials and their gauge transformations, recently given by Nisbet, are re-derived in tensor form appropriate to the space-time of special…

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