David Widder
| David Widder | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 March 1898 Harrisburg |
| Died | 8 July 1990 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | George D. Birkhoff |
| Doctoral students |
R. Creighton Buck Ralph P. Boas, Jr. Solomon W. Golomb Donald J. Newman Roger Pinkham Harry Pitt Harry Pollard |
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).
References
- A Century of Mathematics in America by Peter L. Duren and Richard Askey, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0130-9.
- A History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society 1939-1988 By Everett Pitcher, American Mathematical Society, 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0125-2.
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