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He wrote ''The Calculus of Observations: a treatise on numerical mathematics'' (1924) and ''Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies: With an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies'' (1937). He was the editor of Eddington's ''Fundamental Theory'' (1946), and wrote
''From Euclid to Eddington, A Study of Conceptions of the External World'' (1949), including a first scholarly account of some of the research between 1900 to 1925. He wrote also ''A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity'' in two volumes.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge from 1892. He graduated as Wrangler/Second Wrangler in the examination in 1895. In 1896, Whittaker was elected as a fellow of Trinity College. Between 1906 and 1911 he was the Irish Astronomer Royal and taught mathematical physics at Trinity College Dublin. He became professor at Edinburgh University in 1911, where he served out his academic career.
Whittaker was a Christian and became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church (1930). Whittaker was, in 1954, selected by the scientific ''Fellows of the Society'' to receive the Copley Medal award, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. Whittaker died in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The mathematician John Macnaughten Whittaker (1905-1984) was his son.
''See also'': Magnetogravity
Publications* Whittaker, Edmund, "''The Calculus of Observations: a treatise on numerical mathematics''". 1924.
* Whittaker, Edmund, "''On an expression of the electromagnetic field due to electrons by means of two scalar potential functions''". November, 1904.
* Whittaker, Edmund, "''A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century''". 1910. ISBN 0486261263
References* Aitken, A. C., "''The contributions of E T Whittaker to algebra and numerical analysis''". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathical Society, 1958.
* Dingle, H., "''Edmund T Whittaker, mathematician and historian''". Science, 1956.
* Temple, G. F. J., "''Edmund Taylor Whittaker''". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 1956.
* "''Whittaker Memorial Volume''". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathical Society, 1958.
* Bearden, T. E., "''Gravitobiology : Conception of Edmund Whittaker (papers of 1903-1904)''". Tesla Book Co., Chula Vista, CA, USA.
External links*http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Whittaker.html
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