Tom Whiteside

See also: Thomas Whiteside (disambiguation)

Tom Whiteside
Born(1932-07-23)23 July 1932
Blackpool, England
Died22 April 2008(2008-04-22) (aged 75)
Wokingham, England
AwardsKoyré Medal (1968)
FBA (1975)
George Sarton Medal (1977)[1]
Scientific career
ThesisPatterns of mathematical thought in the later seventeenth century (1961)
Doctoral advisorRichard Braithwaite
Michael Hoskin[2]

Derek Thomas Whiteside FBA (23 July 1932 – 22 April 2008[3]) was a British historian of mathematics.

  1. ^ Professor Tom Whiteside, 1932-2008, Cambridge University Department of History and Philosophy of Science, archived from the original on 14 July 2009, retrieved 2 May 2009
  2. ^ "Professor Tom Whiteside", The Times, 7 May 2008, archived from the original on 17 May 2008
  3. ^ Bursill-Hall, Piers (3 May 2008), "Professor D. T. Whiteside: Historian of mathematics whose prodigious work on Newton's papers astonished the scholarly world", The Independent, retrieved 17 July 2008