Edwin Bidwell Wilson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson (born April 25, 1879 in Hartford , Connecticut , † December 28, 1964 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician and polymath .
His parents were Edwin Horace Wilson and Jane Amelia Bidwell. Wilson attended Harvard University and graduated there in 1899. He then worked in 1901 on his doctorate at Yale University , where he was a student of Josiah Willard Gibbs . From 1902 to 1903 he studied at the École polytechnique , the Sorbonne and the Collège de France . He then taught mathematics at Yale, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1906. In 1907 he became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and in 1911 a full professor at Yale. From 1922 to 1945 he was Professor of Population Statistics at the Harvard School of Public Health . After his retirement in 1945 he lectured at the University of Glasgow .
In 1901 Wilson published his first work on vector analysis . He then wrote papers on mechanics and the theory of relativity and in 1912 the first paper on advanced calculus in America. He also worked on problems in the field of statistics .
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Royal Statistical Society , the American Statistical Association (President 1929), the American Philosophical Society (since 1917), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (member since 1911, President 1927–1931).
See also
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- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Edwin Bidwell Wilson. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician, polyhistor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Connecticut , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1964 |
| Place of death | Brookline , Massachusetts , USA |