The Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory and Edmund Taylor Whittaker's role in the early development of numerical analysis in Britain

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2020.09.002zbMath1472.01027OpenAlexW3108329460MaRDI QIDQ2041106

Alison Maidment

Publication date: 15 July 2021

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://oro.open.ac.uk/73667/1/ETW%20and%20the%20Introduction%20of%20Numerical%20Analysis%20to%20GB.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

numerical analysisEdinburgh Mathematical Laboratory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

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• ‘A man who has infinite capacity for making things go’: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956)
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