Wilfrid Norman Bailey (born 5 September 1893
Consett
Consett is a town in County Durham, England, about south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had a population of 27,394 in 2001 and an estimate of 25,812 in 2019.
History
Consett sits high on the edge of the Pennines. Its' name originates in the ...
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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.
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20th-century British mathematicians
1893 births
1961 deaths