Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25 1879 – December 28 1964) was a mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to Harvard economist Paul Samuelson. [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/articles/samuelson-2/index.html How I Became an Economist] by Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Laureate in Economics, 5 September 2003] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs. [ [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wilson_Edwin.html Edwin Bidwell Wilson biography] ]

E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics.

References


* Jerome Hunsaker and Saunders MacLane (1973) "Biographical Memoirs" v. 43, pp.285-320, National Academy of Sciences of USA.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=R5IKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 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.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=ORkPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Advanced Calculus] by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1912.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=peVEAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover Aeronautics: A Class Text] By Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1920.


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