Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1918-1956 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
11 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Edmund Taylor Whittaker, born in 1873 in Southport, England, was a mathematician, astronomer and philospher. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Dublin in 1906. In 1912, he was made professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, holding this post for thirty-five years before retiring in 1946. After 1930, when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, his interests turned to natural theology. He died in 1956.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Professor J.M. Whittaker via Jeffrey Crelinsten, 1982.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection consists mainly of correspondence between E.T. Whittaker and his son, J.M. Whittaker, as well as the elder Whittaker's scientific writings, reviews and articles. It also includes some autobiographical material.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English