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

DOI10.1080/26375451.2019.1619410zbMath1425.01091OpenAlexW2945872588MaRDI QIDQ5241907

Mark McCartney, Alison Maidment

Publication date: 4 November 2019

Published in: British Journal for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://oro.open.ac.uk/61643/22/61643.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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