| RefNo | EC/1905/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 213 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Fellow and Mathematical Lecturerof Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of the treatise, 'A Course of Modern Analysis' (1902), and of the following papers (among others): - 'On the Connection of Algebraic Functions with Automorphic Functions' (Phil Trans, vol cxcii); Report 'On the Progress of the Solution of the Problem of Three Bodies' (Brit Assoc Report, 1899); 'On Lagrange's Parentheses in the Planetary Theory' (Messenger of Math, vol xxvi); 'On the Reduction of the Order of the Differential Equations of a Dynamical Problem by Use of the Integral of Energy' (ibid, vol xxx); 'Note on a Function Analagous to Weierstrass' Sigma-Function ' (ibid, vol xxxi); 'On Periodic Orbits' (Monthly Notices, Roy Astron Soc, vol lxii); 'On Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Problem of Three Bodies' (ibid, vol lxii); 'On the General Solution of Laplace's Equation and the Equation of Wave-Motions, and on an Undulatory Explanation of Gravity' (ibid, vol lxii); 'On the Solution of Dynamical Problems in Terms of Trigonometric Series' (Proc Lond Math Soc, vol xxxiv); 'On the Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics' (Math Ann, vol lvii). Author of the article, 'Die Mathematische Behandlung des n-Korperproblems' (Encycl d Math Wissen, vol iv). |
| Proposers | A R Forsyth; H Darwin; Robert S Ball; J W L Glaisher; E J Routh; W Burnside; E W Hobson; H F Baker; P A MacMahon |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2270 | Whittaker; Sir; Edmund Taylor (1873 - 1956); mathematician and astronomer | 1873 - 1956 |