Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Born	October 24, 1873 • Southport • England
Died	March 24, 1956 (aged 82) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1954)
Notable Works	“A Course of Modern Analysis” • “A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century”
Subjects Of Study	special function

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