Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize

Award of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. It is named after Sir Edmund Whittaker.

History

After the death of Sir Edmund Whittaker in 1956, his son John Macnaghten Whittaker donated on behalf of the Whittaker Family the sum of £500 to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to establish a prize for mathematical work in memory of his father. As of 2009, the award money remains £500.^[1]

Winners

2023 Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews)
2021 Ben Davison (University of Edinburgh)
2019 Michela Ottobre (Heriot-Watt University)
2016 Arend Bayer (University of Edinburgh)
2013 Stuart White (University of Glasgow)
2009 Agata Smoktunowicz (University of Edinburgh)^[2]
2005 Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield)
2001 Michael McQuillan and J A Sherratt
1997 Alan D Rendall (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik)
1993 Mitchell A. Berger and Alan W. Reid^[3]
1989 A A Lacey and Michael Röckner
1985 John Mackintosh Howie
1981 John M. Ball (University of Oxford)
1977 Gavin Brown and C A Stuart
1973 A M Davie (University of Edinburgh)
1970 Derek J S Robinson (University of Illinois)
1965 John Bryce McLeod (University of Oxford)
1961 A G Mackie and Andrew H. Wallace

References

^ "Whittaker rules 2013". Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014.
^ "Whittaker Prize : EMS". Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^ "Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 37 (2): 359–360. June 1994. doi:10.1017/S0013091500006131. ISSN 1464-3839.

External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "EMS Whittaker Prize", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Winners of the EMS Whittaker Prize", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
"Edinburgh Mathematical Society". Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on 14 July 2001. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
"Prizes". Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE LLD ScD

Fields

Notable works

A Course of Modern Analysis (1902)
Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies (1904)
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, from the age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910)
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, the Classic Theories (1951)
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, the Modern Theories (1900-1926) (1953)

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