Nationality American Name David Widder Institutions Harvard University Role Mathematician | Alma mater Harvard University Fields Mathematics | |
Born 25 March 1898
Harrisburg ( 1898-03-25 ) Doctoral students R. Creighton Buck
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Solomon W. Golomb
Donald J. Newman
Roger Pinkham
Harry Pitt
Harry Pollard Died July 8, 1990, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books The Laplace Transform, The Convolution Transform, Advanced calculus, The Heat Equation Similar People Ralph P Boas - Jr, George David Birkhoff, Solomon W Golomb, G H Hardy | ||
Education Harvard University (1924) Doctoral advisor George D. Birkhoff | ||
David Vernon Widder (25 March 1898 – 8 July 1990) was an American mathematician. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1924 under George Birkhoff and went on to join the faculty there.
He was a co-founder of the Duke Mathematical Journal and the author of the textbook Advanced Calculus. He wrote also The Laplace transform (in which he gave a first solution to Landau's problem on the Dirichlet eta function), An introduction to transform theory, and The convolution transform (co-author with I. I. Hirschman).
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