List of Famous people born in Northam, United Kingdom

G. N. Watson

First Name G.

Last Name Watson

Born on January 31, 1886

Died on February 2, 1965 (aged 79)

Born in United Kingdom, England, Northam

Prof George Neville Watson FRS HFRSE LLD was an English mathematician, who applied 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 (1902) 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 behaviour of exponential integrals.

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