Derek Thomas Whiteside

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doctoral_advisor = Richard Braithwaite [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3882200.ece "Professor Tom Whiteside"] , "The Times", May 7, 2008]
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Derek Thomas Whiteside (July 23 1932–April 22 2008 [Bursill-Hall, Piers [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-d-t-whiteside-historian-of-mathematics-whose-prodigious-work-on-newtons-papers-astonished-the-scholarly-world-820387.html "Professor D. T. Whiteside: Historian of mathematics whose prodigious work on Newton's papers astonished the scholarly world"] , "The Independent", May 3, 2008. ] ) was a British historian of mathematics. He was the foremost authority on the work of Isaac Newton and editor of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Before his retirement in 1999, he was the Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Exact Sciences at Cambridge University [Fleming, Craig [http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Maths-prof-from-Blackpool-slums.4038015.jp "Maths prof from Blackpool slums dies"] , "The Blackpool Gazette", May 1 2008] .

He had two children Simon and Philippa with his wife Ruth. [Shapiro, Alan [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,,2277886,00.html "DT Whiteside"] , "The Guardian", May 5, 2008]

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