Sheila Scott Macintyre | |
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Born | Sheila Scott 23 April 1910 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | 21 March 1960 Cincinnati, Ohio, US | (aged 49)
Alma mater | |
Known for | work on the Whittaker function |
Spouse |
Archibald James Macintyre
(m. 1940) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Some Problems in Interpolatory Function Theory (1947) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Maitland Wright |
Sheila Scott Macintyre FRSE (23 April 1910 – 21 March 1960) was a Scottish mathematician best known for her work on the Whittaker constant. Macintyre is also known for co-authoring a German–English mathematics dictionary with Edith Witte.