Nationality American Name David Widder Role Mathematician | ||
Born 25 March 1898Harrisburg ( 1898-03-25 ) Doctoral students R. Creighton BuckRalph P. Boas, Jr.Solomon W. GolombDonald J. NewmanRoger PinkhamHarry PittHarry 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) | ||
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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