Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
E. T. Whittaker

Born: October 24, 1873
Died: March 24, 1956 (aged 82)
Bio: Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions.
Known for:
- A Course of Modern Analysis (1902)
- The theory of optical instruments (1907)






