Nationality American Fields Mathematics | Role Mathematician Name Edwin Wilson | |
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Born April 25, 1879 ( 1879-04-25 ) Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alma mater Yale University
Harvard College Died December 28, 1964, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States Books Advanced Calculus: A Text Upon Select Parts of Differential Calculus, Differential Equations, Integral Calculus, Theory of Functions, with Numerous Exercises Education Harvard College, Harvard University, Yale University Similar People Josiah Willard Gibbs, Paul Samuelson, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, James Tobin | ||
Doctoral advisor Josiah Willard Gibbs | ||
Edwin Bidwell Wilson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.
E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics.
Wilson was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1904 in Heidelberg and in 1924 in Toronto. In 1924 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
In 1904 Wilson reviewed Bertrand Russell's text on foundations of mathematics called The Principles of Mathematics.
Wilson wrote "The Space-Time Manifold of Relativity" with Gilbert N. Lewis in 1912.
Wilson went on to write two more textbooks: Advanced Calculus (1912) and Aeronautics: A Class Text (1920).