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gptkb:person
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
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gptkbp:awardReceived
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gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:De_Morgan_Medal
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:Smith's_Prize
gptkb:Sylvester_Medal
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1873-10-24
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Southport,_Lancashire,_England
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:John_Macnaghten_Whittaker
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1956-03-24
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:Edinburgh,_Scotland
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gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor
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gptkb:Andrew_Forsyth
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gptkbp:doctoralStudent
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gptkb:Arthur_Eddington
gptkb:Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
gptkb:George_Barker_Jeffery
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
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gptkbp:fieldOfWork
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gptkb:astronomy
applied mathematics
mathematical analysis
mathematical physics
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gptkbp:fullName
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gptkb:Edmund_Taylor_Whittaker
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Edmund Whittaker
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Arthur_Eddington
gptkb:Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
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gptkbp:knownFor
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gptkb:Whittaker_and_Watson's_Modern_Analysis
gptkb:Whittaker–Shannon_interpolation_formula
gptkb:Whittaker_function
Whittaker equation
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gptkb:Royal_Astronomical_Society
gptkb:Royal_Irish_Academy
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh
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gptkbp:nationality
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British
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gptkbp:notableWork
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gptkb:A_History_of_the_Theories_of_Aether_and_Electricity
gptkb:A_Course_of_Modern_Analysis
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:mathematician
astronomer
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gptkbp:positionHeld
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Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
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gptkbp:religion
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gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
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gptkbp:signature
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Edmund_Whittaker_signature.svg
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Mary_Ferguson_Macnaghten_Boyd
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Alexander_Aitken
gptkb:Sir_Arthur_Eddington
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