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Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician, statistician, physicist and general polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale University physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson . [2]
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
Quick Info. Born. 25 April 1879. Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Died. 28 December 1964. Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Summary. Edwin Wilson was an American mathematician and statistician who worked in many different areas. View one larger picture. Biography. Edwin Wilson's father, Edwin Horace Wilson, was a teacher in a secondary school.
Apr 24, 2024 · (1879–1964; b. Hartford, CT; d. 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).
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.
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WILSON, EDWIN BIDWELL. ( b. Hartford, Connecticut, 25 April 1879; d. Brookline, Massachusetts, 28 December 1964) mathematics, physics, statistics, public health. The son of a schoolteacher, Wilson graduated B.A. from Harvard in 1899 and Ph.D. from Yale two years later. He studied for a while in Paris, taught mathematics at Yale, and then moved ...
BOSTON, Dec. 28—Dr. Edwin Bidwell Wilson, former professor of vital statistics at the Harvard University School of Public Health, died tonight at New England Deaconess Hospital. He was 85...
