Edwin Bidwell Wilson
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Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.[1] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.[2]
E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics. Wilson went on to write two more textbooks: Advanced Calculus (1912) and Aeronautics: A Class Text (1920).
[edit] References
- ^ How I Became an Economist by Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Laureate in Economics, 5 September 2003
- ^ Edwin Bidwell Wilson biography
- Jerome Hunsaker and Saunders MacLane (1973) Biographical Memoirs v. 43, pp.285-320, National Academy of Sciences of USA.
- Vector Analysis: A Text-book for the Use of Students of Mathematics and Physics, (based upon the lectures of Willard Gibbs) by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1902.
- Advanced Calculus by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1912.
- Aeronautics: A Class Text By Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1920.
Categories: 1879 births | 1964 deaths | American mathematicians | American physicists | Harvard University alumni | Yale University alumni | Yale University faculty | Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty | Harvard University faculty | Presidents of the American Statistical Association | American statisticians
