William Fogg Osgood

William Fogg Osgood (March 10, 1864, Boston - July 22, 1943, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, born in Boston.

In 1886, he graduated from Harvard, where, after studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887–1889) and Erlangen (Ph.D., 1890), he was instructor (1890–1893), assistant professor (1893–1903), and thenceforth professor of mathematics. He became professor emeritus in 1933. Osgood was chairman of the department of mathematics in Harvard from 1918 to 1922.

From 1899 to 1902, he served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics and in 1904–1905 was president of the American Mathematical Society, whose Transactions he edited in 1909–1910. In 1904, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The works of Osgood dealt with complex analysis, in particular conformal mapping and uniformization of analytic functions, and calculus of variations. He was invited by Felix Klein to write an article on complex analysis in the Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften which was later expanded in the book Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie. Besides his research on analysis, Osgood was also interested in mathematical physics and wrote on the theory of the gyroscope.

Osgood's cousin, Louise Osgood, was the mother of Bernard Koopman.^[1]

Contents 1 See also 2 Notes 3 Works by W. F. Osgood 4 Bibliography 5 External links

See also

• Osgood curve
• Riemann mapping theorem
• Osgood–Brown theorem

Notes

Works by W. F. Osgood

Osgood's books include:

• Introduction to Infinite Series (Harvard University Press 1897; third edition, 1906)
• (with W. C. Graustein) Plane and solid analytic geometry (Macmillan, NY, 1921)
• Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie (Teubner, Berlin, 1907; second edition, 1912)
• First Course in Differential and Integral Calculus (1907; revised edition, 1909)
• Elementary calculus (MacMillan, NY, 1921)
• Mechanics (MacMillan, NY, 1937)

Bibliography

• American Mathematical Society (2011), "39. Charles Bradford Morrey, Jr. (1907–1984)", AMS Presidents: A Timeline, Providence, RI: University of California, Berkeley, http://www.ams.org/about-us/presidents/39-morrey, retrieved October 31, 2011 .
• Archibald, Raymond Clare (1938), A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888--1938. Volume I, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. 262, ISBN 0-8218-0118-X, JFM 64.0004.01, MR0959537, Zbl 0019.24305, http://www.ams.org/samplings/math-history/hmpitcher-index .
• Koopman, Bernard Osgood (March 1944), "William Fogg Osgood—In memoriam", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 50 (3): 139–142, MR0010143, Zbl 0060.01703, http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183505672 .
• Morse, Philip M. (1982), "In Memoriam: Bernard Osgood Koopman, 1900–1981", Operations Research 30 (3): viii+417–427, doi:10.1287/opre.30.3.417, JSTOR 170181 .
• Walsh, J. L. (1973), "History of the Riemann mapping theorem", The American Mathematical Monthly 80: 270–276, ISSN 0002-9890, JSTOR 2318448, MR0323996, Zbl 0273.30003 .
• Walsh, Joseph L. (2002), "William Fogg Osgood", in National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Biographical Memoirs, 81, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 246–257, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10470&page=246 .

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (August 2005), "William Fogg Osgood", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Osgood.html .
• William Fogg Osgood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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