Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.^[1] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.^[2]

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 went on to write two more textbooks: Advanced Calculus (1912) and Aeronautics: A Class Text (1920).

See also

• Wilson score interval

References

1. ^ How I Became an Economist by Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Laureate in Economics, 5 September 2003
2. ^ Edwin Bidwell Wilson biography

• Jerome Hunsaker and Saunders MacLane (1973) Biographical Memoirs v. 43, pp.285-320, National Academy of Sciences of USA.
• Vector Analysis: A Text-book for the Use of Students of Mathematics and Physics, (based upon the lectures of Willard Gibbs) by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1902.
• Advanced Calculus by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1912.
• Aeronautics: A Class Text By Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1920.
• Edwin B. Wilson & Gilbert N. Lewis (1912) "The Space-time Manifold of Relativity. The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Mechanics and Electromagnetics" Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 48:387–507.