Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25 1879 – December 28 1964) was a mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protegé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to Harvard 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.

References

• 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.