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Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician, statistician, physicist and general polymath. [1] He was the sole protégé of Yale University physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson. [2] Wilson had a distinguished academic career at Yale and ...
EDWIN BIDWELL WILSON, mathematician, theoretical physi-cist, statistician, and economist, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, on April 25, 1879. He was the son of Edwin Hor-ace and Jane Amelia (Bidwell) Wilson; his father was a teacher and superintendent of schools of Middletown, Con-necticut. As a student at Harvard, Wilson already set the style
3 days ago · Brookline, MA)American mathematician. Wilson obtained his AB from Harvard U in 1899 and his PhD (supervised by Gibbs) from Yale in 1901. He left the Yale faculty in 1907 for MIT where he became in turn Professor of Mathematics (1911) and of Physics (1917). His interests centered on aerodynamics; his modelling of wind gusts led him to statistics.
In 1906 Wilson was appointed as an assistant professor at Yale, then in 1907 he was appointed associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1911 he was promoted to full professor. Wilson had been inspired by Gibbs to work on mathematical physics and he began to write papers on mechanics and the theory of relativity.
Vector Analysis is a textbook by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, first published in 1901 and based on the lectures that Josiah Willard Gibbs had delivered on the subject at Yale University. The book did much to standardize the notation and vocabulary of three-dimensional linear algebra and vector calculus, as used by physicists and mathematicians. It was ...
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Mar 19, 2019 · The usual caveat applies. Papers of Edwin Bidwell Wilson (PEBW) were consulted at Harvard University Archives, HUG4878.203 (indicated if different); Paul A. Samuelson Papers (PASP) and Lloyd Metzler Papers (LMP) were consulted at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.
Feb 23, 2024 · Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Publication date 1966-01-01 Publisher National Academy of Sciences Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor ...
