Gerald James Whitrow (died June 2nd, 2000). Mathematician. Whitrow became Lecturer at the Imperial College, London, in 1945, then Reader of Applied Mathematics in 1951 and Professor of the History of Mathematics in 1972. Following his retirement in 1979, he was Emeritus Professor in the University of London and Senior Research Fellow of the Imperial College. For much of his life he has been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by gentleman astronomers rather than professionals). ...

At Oxford he worked on relativity with Professor Arthur Milne and his main contributions were in the fields of cosmology and astrophysics. His interests included the history and philosophy of science. Among his publications, The Natural Philosophy of Time received special attention. Edward Arthur Milne (February 14, 1896 – September 21, 1950) was a British mathematician and astrophysicist. ...

Bibliography

Books

• The Nature of Time, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1973
• Atoms and the Universe, Penguin Books, 1973
• The Natural Philosophy of Time, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980
• Einstein, the Man and his Achievement, Dover Publcations, 1986
• Time in History. The evolution of our general awareness of time and temporal perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988

Articles

• Reflections on the Natural Philosophy of Time. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 138:422-432. 1967.
• Mathematical Time and Its Role in the Development of the Scientific World-View. In Time and the Sciences. Frank Greenway, ed. Pp. 21-37. Paris: UNESCO. 1979.