Wilfrid Norman Bailey

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Wilfrid Norman Bailey (born 1893-9-5 Consett, Durham; died 1961-10-23, 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.

[edit] References

• Slater, L. J. (1962), "Wilfrid Norman Bailey", Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series 37: 504–512, doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-37.1.504, MR0141583, ISSN 0024-6107 

[edit] External links

• Wilfrid Norman Bailey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project