What is the full name of E. T. Whittaker?
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Edward Thomas Whittaker
Ethan Timothy Whittaker
Elias Theodore Whittaker
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, was an English mathematician and physicist. His research covered a wide range of topics, including special functions, integral equations, and Theory of relativity. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Whittaker functions, which are solutions to a certain type of differential equation.
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