Wilfrid Norman Bailey

Wilfrid Norman Bailey (born 5 September 1893, Consett, 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.

Wilfrid N. Bailey
Born	(1893-09-05)5 September 1893 Durham
Died	23 October 1961(1961-10-23) (aged 68)
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Victoria University of Manchester London University University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Hypergeometric series
Thesis	(1931)
Doctoral advisor	Louis Joel Mordell
Doctoral students	Lucy Joan Slater

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, ISSN 0024-6107, MR 0141583

External links

• Wilfrid Norman Bailey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project