E. T. Whittaker
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 69 years ago |
| Date of birth | October 24,1873 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Southport |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | March 24,1956 |
| Died | George Square |
| Edinburgh | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Children | John Macnaghten Whittaker |
| Known for | Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem |
| A Course of Modern Analysis | |
| Whittaker function | |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Physicist | |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Trinity College | |
| Manchester Grammar School | |
| Awards | Copley Medal |
| De Morgan Medal | |
| Sylvester Medal | |
| Smith's Prize | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | |
| Doctor student | Alexander Aitken |
| George C. McVittie | |
| Vaidyanathaswamy | |
| Notable student | G. N. Watson |
| Arthur Eddington | |
| G. H. Hardy | |
| Academic advisor | George Darwin |
| Andrew Forsyth | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1382859 |
E. T. Whittaker Life story
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science.