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G. N. Watson | |
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| Born | George Neville Watson 31 January 1886 Westward Ho!, England |
| Died | 2 February 1965 (aged 79) Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Whittaker and Watson text Watson's quintuple product identity |
| Awards | Smith's Prize (1909) Sylvester Medal (1946) De Morgan Medal (1947) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | E. T. Whittaker[2] |
George Neville Watson FRS FRSE (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. His collaboration on the 1915 second edition of E. T. Whittaker's A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) produced the classic "Whittaker and Watson" text. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals.[1][3][4]
- ^ a b Whittaker, J. M. (1966). "George Neville Watson 1886-1965". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 12: 520–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1966.0026. S2CID 129103196.
- ^ G. N. Watson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Rankin, R. A. (1966). "George Neville Watson". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s1-41: 551–565. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-41.1.551.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "G. N. Watson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews