James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, in Lewisham – 7 December 1928, in Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher...
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich. James and Cecilia had two sons: Ernest Glaisher and the mathematician James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), and one daughter:...
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astronomer James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), English mathematician and astronomer Glaisher (crater), a crater on the Moon, named for James Glaisher (1809–1903)...
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Appelina Glaisher (1845–1932), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), and Ernest Henry Glaisher (1858–1885). James Glaisher's career is well documented...
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functions and zeta functions. It is named after mathematicians James Whitbread Lee Glaisher and Hermann Kinkelin. Its approximate value is: A = 1.28242712910062263687...
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of repeating decimals from rational fractions were given by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher in 1878. For a prime p, the period of its reciprocal divides...
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number theory, Glaisher's theorem is an identity useful to the study of integer partitions. Proved in 1883 by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, it states that...
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Taylor and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth. In the nineteenth century...
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studied beginning in the 19th century by Hermann Kinkelin and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher. As Kinkelin showed, just as the factorials can be continuously...
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Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), English mathematician Peter Whitbread (1928–2004), English actor and screenwriter Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796), English...
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