G. N. Watson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

G. N. Watson

English mathematician who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1886

Place of Birth: Westward Ho!, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1965

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Prof George Neville Watson FRS HFRSE LLD (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) 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.