Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873 - 1956)

* 24 October 1873, † 24 March 1956

Edmund Taylor Whittaker was born on 24 October 1873 in Southport, Lancashire, England. Edmund Whittaker’s best known work is in analysis, in particular numerical analysis, but he also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of applied mathematics and physics. Edmund Taylor Whittaker died on 24 March 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland.