Edwin Plimpton Adams
| Edwin Plimpton Adams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 23, 1878 Prague, Bohemia-Moravia |
| Died |
December 31, 1956 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Mathematics Physics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878[1] – Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures.
Works
- Adams, Edwin Plimpton; Hippisley, Richard Lionel (1922). Greenhill, Alfred George, ed. Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 74 (1 ed.). Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)
Further reading
- Shenstone, A. G. (1957). "Nekrolog". Science. 125: 339.
References
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Plimpton Adams", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
External links
- Works by Edwin Plimpton Adams at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edwin Plimpton Adams at Internet Archive
- Edwin Plimpton Adams Papers, 1900–1945: Finding Aid
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