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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]
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 ...
Vector calculus was developed from the theory of quaternions by J. Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside near the end of the 19th century, and most of the notation and terminology was established by Gibbs and Edwin Bidwell Wilson in their 1901 book, Vector Analysis.
Dec 11, 2013 · Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964. Wed, 12/11/2013 - 14:13. Physicist (mathematical physics and aeronautics). On the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
4 days ago · 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).
Biography. Edwin Wilson's father, Edwin Horace Wilson, was a teacher in a secondary school. His mother was Jane Amelia Bidwell. Wilson attended Harvard University, graduating with a A.B. in 1899. He then decided to work for his doctorate at Yale and there he was a student of Gibbs.
Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1879-1964. Edwin Bildwell Wilson was a famous mathematician, physicist and statistician, with only an amateur's interest in economics. Originating from Connectiuct, E.B. Wilson obtained his B.A. at Harvard in 1899, and promptly enrolled in graduate study under J. Willard Gibbs at Yale, receiving his Ph.D in 1901.
