Ask the ChatbotGames & QuizzesHistory & SocietyScience & TechBiographiesAnimals & NatureGeography & TravelArts & CultureProConMoneyVideos
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Quizzes
Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics
Read Next
bunch of numbers
Unusual Counting Systems
number zero, 0 balloon
Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. Statue
Philosophers to Know, Part I
Discover
Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.
How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials
Bristlecone pine (Pinus Longaeva) on the slope of Mount Washington in Great Basin National Park in the Nevada desert.
How Can Some Trees Survive for Thousands of Years?
The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)
9 Worst Generals in History
Shadow of a man holding large knife in his hand inside of some dark, spooky buiding
7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.
Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms
Korean War - U.S. Marines watch explosions of bombs dropped by Marine Vought F4U Corsair fighter bomber planes during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Korea, in December 1950. soldiers
Korean War Timeline
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. August 28th 1963
Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat?

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

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
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
British mathematician
George Green
British mathematician
Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Barlow, Peter
Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics