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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Scaling (geometry) Transformation matrix Translational symmetry Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1988). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and...
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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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of Edinburgh, studying for his doctorate (PhD) under Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Professor Arthur Stanley Eddington was his external examiner....
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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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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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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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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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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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