Wilfrid Norman Bailey
Wilfrid N. Bailey | |
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Born | |
Died | 23 October 1961 | (aged 68)
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Manchester London University University of Cambridge |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Hypergeometric series |
Thesis | (1931) |
Doctoral advisor | Louis Joel Mordell |
Doctoral students | Lucy Joan Slater |
Wilfrid Norman Bailey (born 5 September 1893 Consett, Durham; died 23 October 1961, Eastbourne) was a mathematician who introduced Bailey's lemma and Bailey pairs into the theory of basic hypergeometric series. Bailey chains and Bailey transforms are named after him.
References
[edit]- Slater, L. J. (1962), "Wilfrid Norman Bailey", Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Second Series, 37: 504–512, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-37.1.504, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0141583