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RefNoEC/1919/13
Previous numbersCert XIII, 163; A56040
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TitleWatson, George Neville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationEx-Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Assistant Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College, London. Distinguished for his researches in Pure Mathematics. Gold Medallist of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1911-1912. Author of the following published investigations (among others): 'A Theory of Asymptotic Series' (Phil Trans, 1912, A); 'The Zeros of Bessel Functions' (Proc Roy Soc, 1917, Proc Camb Phil Soc, vol xix - three papers, Proc Lond Math Soc, vol xvi); 'The Theory of Asymptotic Series' (Palermo Rendiconti, vol xxxiv, Quart Journ, vol xlii, Phil Mag, 1916); 'Linear Difference Equations' (Proc Lond Math Soc, vols viii and x); 'The Analytic Continuation of Functions of Complex Variables' (Trans Camb Phil Soc xxi and xxii, Quart Journ , vols xlii and xliv, Proc Lond Math Soc, vol xii); 'Parabolic Cylinder Functions' (ibid, vol viii); 'Gamma Functions' (Quart Journ, vol xlviii, Messenger of Math, vol xlv); 'On Analysis Situs' (Proc Lond Math Soc, vol xv). Author of works on 'Complex Integration and Cauchy's Theorem' (Camb, 1914), and, as joint author, 'Modern Analysis' (Camb, 1915).
ProposersE T Whittaker; M J M Hill; P A MacMahon; A R Forsyth; A N Whitebead; J W Nicholson; E W Hobson; H F Baker; G H Hardy
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Watson, George Neville: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6171Watson; George Neville (1886 - 1965)1886 - 1965
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