Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, historian of science, and philosopher who authored three titles that remain in circulation over a century after their initial public
A 1933 portrait of Whittaker by Arthur Trevor Haddon titled Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker.
Cover of a 1996 reprint to the fourth edition of the classic textbook A Course of Modern Analysis by Whittaker and George Neville Watson.
Cover of a 1989 reprint of the fourth edition of the textbook Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies.
Cover of a 2011 reprint Whittaker's 1910 book A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, From the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century.
A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies is a treatise and textbook on analytical dynamics by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Initially published in 1904
Bibliography of E. T. Whittaker
…a few months before his death. Whittaker wrote three scientific treatises that were highly influential in their fields, A Course of Modern Analysis, Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, and The Calculus of Observations. In 1956, Gerald James Whitrow stated that two of these books, Modern Analysis and Analytical Dynamics, were not only…
George H. Bryan in the 1900s. Bryan's April 1905 review of the book spurred a flurry of responses published in Nature under the title "Fictitious Problems in Mathematics".
Paul Dirac in 1933. Dirac is said to be "indebted" to the book for its critical discussion of Poisson brackets, which were required for his work on quantum mechanics.