G. N. Watson
Mathematician, Academic
1886 – 1965
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Who was G. N. Watson?
George Neville Watson was an English mathematician, a noted master in the application of 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 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 behavior of exponential integrals.
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- Born
- Jan 31, 1886
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- G. Watson
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- St Paul's School, London
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- Feb 2, 1965
Leamington Spa
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on July 23, 2013
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