Mathematician:George Neville Watson
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Mathematician
English mathematician who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 31 January 1886 in Westward Ho!, Devon, England
- Died: 2 February 1965 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Theorems and Definitions
- Watson's Lemma
- Watson's Hypergeometric Theorem (also known as Watson's Theorem)
- Sommerfeld-Watson Transform (with Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld)
Results named for George Neville Watson can be found here.
Publications
- 1903: A method for determining a very rapidly converging series for the square root of any positive integer
- 1907: The Expansion of Products of Hypergeometric Functions
- 1908: A Series for the Square of the Hypergeometric Function
- 1909: The Cubic Transformation of the Hypergeometric Function
- 1915: A Course of Modern Analysis, 2nd ed. (with E.T. Whittaker)
- 1920: A Course of Modern Analysis, 3rd ed. (with E.T. Whittaker)
- 1927: A Course of Modern Analysis, 4th ed. (with E.T. Whittaker)
- 1922: The Theory of Bessel functions
Also known as
George Neville Watson is usually known as Neville Watson.