Charles Wiggins Cobb
Charles Wiggins Cobb (born September 17, 1875 in Plymouth , Plymouth County , Massachusetts , † March 2, 1949 in Cambridge , Middlesex County , Massachusetts) was an American mathematician and economist .
Charles Wiggins Cobb taught at Amherst College in Massachusetts . Together with Paul Howard Douglas , he empirically demonstrated the Cobb-Douglas function named after them.
Fonts
- Plane Analytic Geometry (1913)
- The Asymptotic Development for a Certain Function of Zero Order (1913)
- Manufacturing in Ten States: 1921-1931 (1935)
- Notes on Massachusetts Manufacturing (1939)
- Notes on United States Manufacturing (1940)
literature
- Albert Nelson Marquis: Who's who in New England: a biographical dictionary of leading living men and women of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. : Volume 3 AN Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1938, p. 295.
- Who's who in Massachusetts. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Boston, 1940, p. 174.
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. : Volume 44. The Foundation, New York, 1949, p. 37.
- RCS Trahair: From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies.
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| SURNAME | Cobb, Charles Wiggins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth , Plymouth County , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1949 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Middlesex County , Massachusetts |