Alison Maidment listed in Best Writings on Mathematics 2020

PhD student Alison Maidment's recent paper A Man Who Has Infinite Capacity for Making Things Go: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956), co-authored with Mack McCartney and published in The British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2019), has made the list of 'Notable Writings' in the book Best Writings on Mathematics 2020 by Mircea Pitik.  

The abstract for the paper reads as follows.

Among the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was British mathematician and astronomer, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Born in Southport, in the north of England, Whittaker’s career started at the University of Cambridge, before moving to Dunsink to become Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and finishing in Scotland as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Whittaker completed original work in a variety of fields, ranging from pure mathematics to mathematical physics and astronomy, as well as publishing on topics in philosophy, history, and theology. Whittaker is also noted as the first person to have opened a mathematical laboratory—with the focus on numerical analysis—in Great Britain. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of Whittaker’s life, both as an academic and a person.