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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was a prominent English mathematician and astronomer. He is known for Glaisher's theorem, an important result in the field of integer partitions, and for the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant, a number important in both mathematics and physics.

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  1. Benjamin BaillaudFebruary 14, 1848 – July 1934
  2. Elia MillosevichSeptember 5, 1848 – December 5, 1919
  3. Henry Augustus RowlandNovember 27, 1848 – April 16, 1901
  4. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (this page)November 5, 1848 – December 7, 1928
  5. Kurd LasswitzApril 20, 1848 – October 17, 1910
  6. Margaret Lindsay HugginsAugust 14, 1848 – March 24, 1915

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